Woodland trees modulate soil resources and conserve fungal diversity in fragmented landscapes

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2162-2169

  Bennett, Lauren T ^a   Kasel, Sabine ^a   Tibbits, Josquin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allocasuarina luehmannii; Fungal community composition; Non metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS); Resource islands; Semiarid; Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T RFLP)

Indexed keywords

ALLOCASUARINA LUEHMANNII; FUNGAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; NON-METRIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING (NMDS); RESOURCE ISLANDS; SEMIARID; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM (T-RFLP);

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FUNGI; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLYMORPHISM; SAMPLING; SOILS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

SOIL CONSERVATION;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; FUNGUS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WOODLAND;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FUNGI; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SAMPLING; SOIL; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

ALLOCASUARINA LUEHMANNII; FUNGI;

EID: 70249141570     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.07.030     Document Type: Article

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