Evidence for mutualist limitation: The impacts of conspecific density on the mycorrhizal inoculum potential of woodland soils

Oecologia

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 123-131

  Haskins, Kristin E ^a   Gehring, Catherine A ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioassay; Drought; Juniperus monosperma; Pinus edulis; Pinyon juniper woodland

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

INOCULATION; MUTUALISM; MYCORRHIZA; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; JUNIPERUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PINE; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEEDLING; SOIL; SYMBIOSIS; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ARIZONA; DNA, FUNGAL; JUNIPERUS; MYCORRHIZAE; PINUS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANT STEMS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TREES;

FUNGI; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS MONOSPERMA; PINUS EDULIS;

EID: 26044475137     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0115-3     Document Type: Article

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