Mycorrhizal fungal diversity determines plant biodiversity, ecosystem variability and productivity

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6706, 1998, Pages 69-72

  Van Der Heijden, Marcel G A ^a   Klironomos, John N ^b   Ursic, Margot ^b   Moutoglis, Peter ^c   Streitwolf Engel, Ruth ^a   Boller, Thomas ^a   Wiemken, Andres ^a   Sanders, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c Premier Tech Riviere du Loup   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; MYCORRHIZA; PLANT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; MYCORRHIZA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0032487856     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/23932     Document Type: Article

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