Common environmental factors explain both ectomycorrhizal species diversity and pine regeneration variability in a post-fire Mediterranean forest

Mycorrhiza

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 549-558

  Buscardo, Erika ^a,b   Freitas, Helena ^b   Pereira, João Santos ^c   de Angelis, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Ectomycorrhizal fungi; Mediterranean ecosystem; Pinus pinaster (maritime pine); Regeneration variability; Succession; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS TREE; CORRELATION; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PATCHINESS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAPLING; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHRUB; SLOPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; TAXONOMY; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PINE; SEEDLING; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; FUNGI; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MYCORRHIZAE; PINUS; SEEDLING; TREES;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

AMANITA; AMANITA PANTHERINA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BOLETUS AESTIVALIS; FUNGI; LACTARIUS CHRYSORRHEUS; PINUS PINASTER; RHIZOPOGON; RUSSULA DENSIFOLIA; THELEPHORACEAE;

EID: 79960200043     PISSN: 09406360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00572-011-0363-5     Document Type: Article

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