Relative roles of niche and neutral processes in structuring a soil microbial community

ISME Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 337-345

  Dumbrell, Alex J ^a   Nelson, Michaela ^a   Helgason, Thorunn ^a   Dytham, Calvin ^a   Fitter, Alastair H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Glomeromycota; Microbial ecology; Neutral theory; Niche differentiation; Terminal fragment length polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

ABUNDANCE; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FUNGUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; NICHE PARTITIONING; PH; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PH; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOIL;

BIODIVERSITY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FUNGI; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI; GLOMEROMYCOTA;

EID: 77149148775     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2009.122     Document Type: Article

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