Spatial organisation of soil fungi how fungi are organised at different spatial scales and the consequences of this for soil function

The Spatial Distribution of Microbes in the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 179-202

  Ritz, Karl ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biotic interactions; environmental spatial heterogeneity; fungi; nutrient cycling; nutrient transport; soil

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549122850     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6216-2_7     Document Type: Chapter

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