Basidiomycete fungal communities in Australian sclerophyll forest soil are altered by repeated prescribed burning

Mycological Research

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 482-486

  Anderson, Ian C ^a   Bastias, Brigitte A ^b   Genney, David R ^a,c   Parkin, Pamela I ^a   Cairney, John W G ^b  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fungal community structure; Internal transcribed spacer (ITS); Repeated prescribed burning; Soil fungi; Terminal restriction fragment length Polymorphism (T RFLP)

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; SPACER DNA;

BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; BURNING; CARBON CYCLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST SOIL; FUNGUS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WOODY PLANT;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BASIDIOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; FIRE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE;

AGRICULTURE; AUSTRALIA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; FIRES; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 34249682723     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

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