Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi reduce the differences in competitiveness between dominant and subordinate plant species

Mycorrhiza

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 267-277

  Mariotte, Pierre ^a,b   Meugnier, Claire ^a   Johnson, David ^c   Thébault, Aurélie ^a,b   Spiegelberger, Thomas ^a,d   Buttler, Alexandre ^a,b,e  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d Cemagref   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Competitive effects; Glomus intraradices; Grasslands; Mutualism parasitism; Plant diversity; Plant hierarchy; Subordinate species

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DOMINANCE; FUNGUS; GRASS; GRASSLAND; INOCULATION; MONOCULTURE; PARASITISM;

ACHILLEA; ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM; AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS CAPILLARIS; ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI; GLOMUS INTRARADICES; PRUNELLA VULGARIS; TARAXACUM OFFICINALE;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GLOMEROMYCOTA; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT;

GLOMEROMYCOTA; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS;

EID: 84876950857     PISSN: 09406360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00572-012-0465-8     Document Type: Article

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