Differences in Soil Fungal Communities between European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) Dominated Forests Are Related to Soil and Understory Vegetation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Wubet, Tesfaye ^a   Christ, Sabina ^b   Schöning, Ingo ^d   Boch, Steffen ^e   Gawlich, Melanie ^a   Schnabel, Beatrix ^a   Fischer, Markus ^e   Buscot, François ^a,c  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CELL THERAPY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BEECH; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; FAGUS SYLVATICA; FOREST; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; SOIL FAUNA; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DOMINANCE; TAXONOMY; VEGETATION;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ECOSYSTEM; FAGUS; GERMANY; MYCORRHIZAE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

EID: 84867634977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047500     Document Type: Article

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