Effects of a hurricane disturbance on aboveground forest structure, arbuscular mycorrhizae and belowground carbon in a restored tropical forest

Ecosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 118-128

  Vargas, Rodrigo ^a   Hasselquist, Niles ^b   Allen, Edith B ^b   Allen, Michael F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest architecture; Forest thinning; Large infrequent disturbance; MODIS; Mycorrhizae; Restoration; Rhizosphere

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HURRICANE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RHIZOSPHERE; ROOT COLONIZATION; THINNING; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI;

EID: 77949268943     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-009-9305-x     Document Type: Article

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