Distinct mycorrhizal communities on new and established hosts in a transitional tropical plant community

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 559-566

  Aldrich Wolfe, Laura ^a,b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhiza; Brachiaria; Common mycorrhizal network; Glomus; Host specificity; Internal transcribed spacer; Reforestation; Soil disturbance; T RFLP; Terminalia amazonia; Tropical forest; Urochloa

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FUNGUS; GRASS; HOST SPECIFICITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SYMBIOSIS; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COSTA RICA; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; POACEAE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEEDLING; SYMBIOSIS; TERMINALIA; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

COSTA RICA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANT ROOTS; POACEAE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEEDLING; SYMBIOSIS; TERMINALIA; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

ARBUSCULAR; BRACHIARIA; FUNGI; GLOMUS; POACEAE; TERMINALIA; TERMINALIA AMAZONIA; UROCHLOA; UROCHLOA DECUMBENS; UROCHLOA RUZIZIENSIS;

EID: 34247118455     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/05-1177     Document Type: Article

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