Soil Conditions in Natural, Declining and Restored Heathlands Influence Plant-Pollinator Interactions of Calluna vulgaris

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 603-611

  De la Peña, Eduardo ^a   Van De Velde, Helena ^a   Lens, Luc ^a   Bonte, Dries ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Above below ground interactions; Apis mellifera; Competition; Deschampsia flexuosa; Ericoid mycorrhiza; Plant soil feedback; Pollinators; Soil biota; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FLOWER; GARDEN; HEATHLAND; HONEYBEE; MYCORRHIZA; PHENOLOGY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL BIOTA; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SYNCHRONY;

APIS MELLIFERA; CALLUNA; CALLUNA VULGARIS; DESCHAMPSIA FLEXUOSA; FUNGI; POACEAE;

EID: 84865860992     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2011.00844.x     Document Type: Article

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