Beech carbon productivity as driver of ectomycorrhizal abundance and diversity

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 992-1003

  Druebert, Christine ^a   Lang, Christa ^a   Valtanen, Kerttu ^a   Polle, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beech; Diversity; Invisibility; Nitrogen; Productivity; Understory ecology

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON;

ABUNDANCE; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECIDUOUS TREE; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; FUNGUS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NUTRITION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS;

ARTICLE; BEECH; BIOMASS; BIOSYNTHESIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT ROOT;

BIOMASS; CARBOHYDRATES; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; FAGUS; LIGHT; MYCORRHIZAE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT ROOTS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA;

EID: 67650473673     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2009.01983.x     Document Type: Article

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