A thready affair: Linking Fungal diversity and community dynamics to terrestrial decomposition processes

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 477-494

  Van der Wal, Annemieke ^a   Geydan, Thomas D ^a,b   Kuyper, Thomas W ^b   De Boer, Wietse ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Diversity functioning relationship; Fungal ecology; Global change; Niche differentiation; Succession

Indexed keywords

LIGNIN; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DECOMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HOME; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LITTER; SAPROTROPH; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; VEGETATION; WOOD; YEAST;

CARBON CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; GLOBAL WARMING; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

FUNGI;

EID: 84878981180     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6976.12001     Document Type: Article

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