Changes of AM Fungal Abundance along Environmental Gradients in the Arid and Semi-Arid Grasslands of Northern China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Hu, Yajun ^a   Rillig, Matthias C ^b,c   Xiang, Dan ^a   Hao, Zhipeng ^a   Chen, Baodong ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c BERLIN BRANDENBURG INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH BBIB   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CHINA; CLAY; CLIMATE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DESERT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GRASSLAND; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NONHUMAN; PH; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PLANT DENSITY; PLANT PARAMETERS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL FERTILITY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS; VEGETATION;

CARBON; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FUNGI; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYPHAE; MYCORRHIZAE; NITROGEN; POACEAE; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84874360867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057593     Document Type: Article

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