Facilitated establishment of Quercus ilex in shrub-dominated communities within a Mediterranean ecosystem: Do mycorrhizal partners matter?

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-24

  Richard, Franck ^a,b   Selosse, Marc André ^b   Gardes, Monique ^a  

^a École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Chaparral; Ecological successions; Facilitation; ITS RFLP; Mycorrhizal networks

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; CHAPARRAL; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOTYPE; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHRUB; SOIL PROFILE; SYMBIONT;

ARTICLE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; FOREST; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; GERMINATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; MORPHOTYPE; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT MICROORGANISM INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUERCUS ILEX; SEEDLING; SHRUB; SUMMER; SURVIVAL; SYMBIONT; TREE;

DNA, FUNGAL; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; ERICACEAE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MYCORRHIZAE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; QUERCUS; SEEDLING; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS; TREES;

ARBUTUS UNEDO; ERICA ARBOREA; FUNGI; QUERCUS ILEX;

EID: 61649115207     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00646.x     Document Type: Article

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