Arbuscular mycorrhizas contribution to nutrition, productivity, structure and diversity of plant community in mountainous herbaceous grassland of northern Greece

Plant Ecology

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 225-234

  Karanika, Efrosyni D ^a   Mamolos, Andreas P ^a   Alifragis, Demetrios A ^a   Kalburtji, Kiriaki L ^a   Veresoglou, Demetrios S ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Benomyl; Diversity index; Evenness; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COLONIZATION; DIVERSITY INDEX; DOMINANCE; FUNGICIDE; GRASSLAND; HERB; LEGUME; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ARBUSCULAR; CAREX; DICOTYLEDONEAE; FUNGI; POACEAE;

EID: 55149124188     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9427-9     Document Type: Article

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