Fine roots, arbuscular mycorrhizal hyphae and soil nutrients in four neotropical rain forests: Patterns across large geographic distances

New Phytologist

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 913-921

  Powers, Jennifer S ^a,c   Treseder, Kathleen K ^b   Lerdau, Manuel T ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi; Fine root length; Fine root mass; Soil nutrients; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; RAINFOREST; ROOT SYSTEM; SOIL NUTRIENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; TREE;

ECOSYSTEM; MYCORRHIZAE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT ROOTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

BRAZIL; CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAE; FUNGI;

EID: 14244258165     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.01279.x     Document Type: Article

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