Responses of fungal root colonization, plant cover and leaf nutrients to long-term exposure to elevated atmospheric CO2 and warming in a subarctic birch forest understory

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1820-1829

  Olsrud, Maria ^a   Carlsson, Bengt Å ^b   Svensson, Brita M ^b   Michelsen, Anders ^a   Melillo, Jerry M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark septate endophyte; Ericoid mycorrhiza; Fine endophyte; Global change; Leaf nitrogen and phosphorus; Open top chamber; Subarctic

Indexed keywords

BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; GLOBAL CHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SYMBIONT; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

SWEDEN;

DESCHAMPSIA FLEXUOSA; EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI;

EID: 77953680426     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02079.x     Document Type: Article

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