Nutrient enrichment increased species richness of leaf litter fungal assemblages in a tropical forest

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2827-2838

  Kerekes, Jennifer ^a   Kaspari, Michael ^b,c   Stevenson, Bradley ^b   Nilsson, R Henrik ^d   Hartmann, Martin ^e,f   Amend, Anthony ^g   Bruns, Thomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^f AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

diversity; fungi; leaf litter; LSU; macronutrients; micronutrients; rDNA ITS

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; FUNGUS; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANAMA; PLANT LEAF; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FERTILIZERS; FUNGI; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; PANAMA; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT LEAVES; POTASSIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; NECTRIACEAE; OTUS;

EID: 84876786639     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12259     Document Type: Article

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