Diversity and function of decomposer fungi from a grassland soil

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 7-20

  Deacon, Lewis J ^a,b,c   Janie Pryce Miller, E ^a,b,d   Frankland, Juliet C ^b   Bainbridge, Brian W ^a   Moore, Peter D ^a   Robinson, Clare H ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Decomposition; Functional redundancy; Fungi; Inter specific facilitation; Microbial biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; Substrate utilisation; Upland grassland

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DECOMPOSITION; DEGRADATION; SOILS; SUBSTRATES;

FUNCTIONAL REDUNDANCY; SUBSTRATE UTILIZATION; UPLAND GRASSLAND;

FUNGI;

FUNGUS; GRASSLAND SOIL;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; FUNGI IMPERFECTI; ZYGOMYCETES; ZYGOMYCOTA;

EID: 28944449480     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.04.013     Document Type: Article

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