Ectomycorrhiza succession patterns in Pinus sylvestris forests after stand-replacing fire in the Central Alps

Oecologia

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 219-228

  Kipfer, Tabea ^a,b   Moser, Barbara ^a   Egli, Simon ^a   Wohlgemuth, Thomas ^a   Ghazoul, Jaboury ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fire disturbance; Recruitment; Resilience; Resistance; Scots pine

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; FUNGUS; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SUCCESSION; WATER UPTAKE;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ITALY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; SCOTS PINE; SWITZERLAND;

ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; ITALY; MYCORRHIZAE; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SWITZERLAND;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; ITALY; SWITZERLAND; VALAIS;

CENOCOCCUM GEOPHILUM; FUNGI; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; RHIZOPOGON ROSEOLUS;

EID: 80051663420     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-1981-5     Document Type: Article

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