The network structure of plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

New Phytologist

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 536-547

  Montesinos Navarro, A ^a   Segarra Moragues, J G ^a   Valiente Banuet, A ^b,c   Verdu M ^a  

^a CDIS UV Generalitat Valenciana)   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Community assemblages; Modularity; Mutualism; Nestedness; Network; Plant arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) association

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; FUNGUS; GENERALIST; MUTUALISM; NESTEDNESS; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIALIST;

ARTICLE; GLOMEROMYCOTA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCORRHIZA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

GLOMEROMYCOTA; LINEAR MODELS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI;

EID: 84858719536     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.04045.x     Document Type: Article

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