Response of ectomycorrhizal community structure to gap opening in natural and managed temperate beech-dominated forests

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1375-1386

  Grebenc, Tine ^a   Christensen, Morten ^b   Vilhar, Urša ^a   Čater, Matjaž ^a   Martín, María P ^c   Simončič, Primož ^a   Kraigher, Hojka ^a  

^a SLOVENIAN FORESTRY INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANOPY GAPS; CLOSED CANOPIES; COMBINED ANALYSIS; CONIFEROUS FORESTS; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL GROUPS; ECOLOGICAL PREFERENCES; ECTOMYCORRHIZAL; ECTOMYCORRHIZAL COMMUNITIES; ECTOMYCORRHIZAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; ECTOMYCORRHIZAS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; FINE-ROOT DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; GAP OPENING; GENETIC RESOURCES; HIGH RESOLUTION; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; NATURAL FORESTS; SOIL BIODIVERSITY; SOIL PH;

BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PH EFFECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CANOPY GAP; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DNA; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST SOIL; FRAGMENTATION; FUNGUS; GENETIC RESOURCE; LITTER SIZE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORDINATION; PH; ROOT SYSTEM; SEEDLING; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; PH; SOIL;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

FAGUS; FUNGI;

EID: 68949167934     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X09-072     Document Type: Article

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