Earthworm-mycorrhiza interactions can affect the diversity, structure and functioning of establishing model grassland communities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Zaller, Johann G ^a   Heigl, Florian ^a   Grabmaier, Andrea ^a   Lichtenegger, Claudia ^a   Piller, Katja ^a   Allabashi, Roza ^a   Frank, Thomas ^a   Drapela, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITRATE; PHOSPHATE; RAIN; SOIL WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHWORM; FORB; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; GRASS; GRASSLAND; LEACHING; LEGUME; MESOCOSM; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PLANT; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT DENSITY; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SHOOT; SIMULATION; SOIL INFILTRATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI; POACEAE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MYCORRHIZAE; OLIGOCHAETA; POACEAE;

EID: 84555191301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029293     Document Type: Article

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