Mycorrhizal fungi reduce nutrient loss from model grassland ecosystems

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1163-1171

  Van Der Heijden, Marcel G A ^a,b  

^a Research Station ART   (Switzerland)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Ecosystem processes; Ecosystem stability; Microbes; Nitrogen; Nutrient leaching; Nutrient retention; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; EUTROPHICATION; GRASS; GRASSLAND; LEACHING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; MUTUALISM; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT LOSS; PHOSPHORUS; SANDY SOIL; SURFACE WATER; SUSTAINABILITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCORRHIZAE; POACEAE;

ARBUSCULAR; EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI;

EID: 77951193881     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0336.1     Document Type: Article

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