Soil microbial communities from an elevational cline differ in their effect on conifer seedling growth

Plant and Soil

Volumn 340, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 491-504

  Wagg, Cameron ^a,c   Husband, Brian C ^a   Green, Scott ^b   Massicotte, Hugues B ^b   Peterson, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dark septate endophytes; Ectomycorrhiza; Seedling growth; Soil feedback; Soil microbial communities; Subalpine soils

Indexed keywords

CLINE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; ENDOPHYTE; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FOREST SOIL; FUNGUS; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ROOT COLONIZATION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT;

CONIFEROPHYTA; FUNGI; PICEA GLAUCA; PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 79951800607     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0621-x     Document Type: Article

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