Direct, positive feedbacks produce instability in models of interrelationships among soil structure, plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1198-1206

  Caruso, Tancredi ^a   Rillig, Matthias C ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

AMF; Dynamical system; Organism; Plants; Soil; Structure

Indexed keywords

AMF; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI; BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DYNAMICAL MODEL; EMPIRICAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; HIGH DIMENSIONALITY; INDIRECT EFFECTS; LOCAL INSTABILITY; NEW DIRECTIONS; NON-LINEARITY; ORGANISM; PHYSICAL STRUCTURES; PLANTS; POSITIVE EFFECTS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL STRUCTURE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL HETEROGENEITY; STRUCTURE; THEORETICAL BASIS; UNSTABLE SYSTEM;

BIOLOGY; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; FUNGI; SOILS; STABILIZATION;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GROWTH RATE; MUTUALISM; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL STABILIZATION; SOIL STRUCTURE;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI;

EID: 79954626443     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.02.009     Document Type: Article

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