Interactions between the salt marsh grass Spartina patens, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and sediment bacteria during the growing season

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 501-511

  Burke, David J ^a   Hamerlynck, Erik P ^a   Hahn, Dittmar ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; In situ hybridization; Mycorrhizas; Nitrogen fixation; rRNA; Salt marsh; Spartina patens

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; CLIMATOLOGY; FUNGI; FUNGICIDES; POPULATION STATISTICS; SAMPLING; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; VEGETATION;

PLANT GROWTH;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN FIXATION; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENT CORE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FUNGI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HYMENACHNE; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPARTINA; SPARTINA PATENS;

EID: 0038679463     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-0717(03)00004-X     Document Type: Article

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