Assessing diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a local community: Role of sampling effort and spatial heterogeneity

Mycorrhiza

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 429-437

  Whitcomb, Sean ^a   Stutz, Jean C ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community structure; Geostatistics; Spatial distribution; Vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FUNGUS; HETEROGENEITY; PATCHINESS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FUNGUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PLANT; UNITED STATES;

ARIZONA; BIODIVERSITY; FUNGI; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANTS; SELECTION BIAS;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; PHOENIX; UNITED STATES;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI; GLOMUS EBURNEUM; GLOMUS MICROAGGREGATUM;

EID: 34250858042     PISSN: 09406360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00572-007-0118-5     Document Type: Article

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