Nitrogen-fixing bacteria, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and the productivity and structure of prairie grassland communities

Oecologia

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1089-1098

  Bauer, Jonathan T ^a   Kleczewski, Nathan M ^b   Bever, James D ^a   Clay, Keith ^a   Reynolds, Heather L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Azospirillum; Diversity; Panicum virgatum; Rhizobia; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DOMINANCE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; FUNGUS; GRASS; LEGUME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; MONOCULTURE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ARBUSCULAR; ASTRAGALUS CANADENSIS; AZOSPIRILLUM; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESMANTHUS; ELYMUS; ELYMUS CANADENSIS; FUNGI; PANICUM; PANICUM VIRGATUM; RHIZOBIACEAE; SORGHASTRUM NUTANS;

EID: 84869083808     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2363-3     Document Type: Article

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