Ectomycorrhizal fungi of whitebark pine (a tree in peril) revealed by sporocarps and molecular analysis of mycorrhizae from treeline forests in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Botany

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-25

  Mohatt, Katherine R ^a   Cripps, Cathy L ^a   Lavin, Matt ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basidiomycota; ITS DNA sequence; Mycorrhizae; Pinus albicaulis; Stone pine

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; SEED;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; MYCORRHIZAE;

FUNGI;

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; FUNGUS; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREELINE;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FUNGI; SEEDS;

ABIES; AGARICALES; ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BOLETALES; CENOCOCCUM GEOPHILUM; CHROOGOMPHUS; COLEOPTERA; CONIFEROPHYTA; CORTINARIUS; FUNGI; PICEA; PINUS ALBICAULIS; PINUS CEMBROIDES; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO; RHIZOPOGON; RHIZOPOGON EVADENS; SUILLUS;

EID: 40449085272     PISSN: 19162804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/B07-107     Document Type: Article

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