Species-rich but distinct arbuscular mycorrhizal communities in reforestation plots on degraded pastures and in neighboring pristine tropical mountain rain forest

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 125-148

  Haug, Ingeborg ^a   Wubet, Tesfaye ^b   Weiß, Michael ^a   Aguirre, Nikolay ^c   Weber, Michael ^d   Günter, Sven ^d   Kottke, Ingrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LOJA   (Ecuador)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cedrela montana; Degraded pastures; Glomeromycota; Heliocarpus americanus; Juglans neotropica; Neotropical mountain rain forest; Reforestation; Ribosomal 18S RNA gene; Setaria sphacelata; Tabebuia chrysantha

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; COLONIZATION; DICOTYLEDON; DNA; FUNGUS; PASTURE; RAINFOREST; REFORESTATION; RNA; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ACAULOSPORACEAE; ARBUSCULAR; ARCHAEOSPORALES; CEDRELA; FUNGI; GIGASPORACEAE; GLOMERACEAE; GLOMEROMYCOTA; GLOMUS; HELIOCARPUS AMERICANUS; JUGLANS; JUGLANS NEOTROPICA; SETARIA SPHACELATA; TABEBUIA; TABEBUIA CHRYSANTHA;

EID: 77049122545     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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