The Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Community Response to Warming and Grazing Differs between Soil and Roots on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Yang, Wei ^a,b   Zheng, Yong ^a   Gao, Cheng ^a   He, Xinhua ^c   Ding, Qiong ^a   Kim, Yongchan ^a,b   Rui, Yichao ^b   Wang, Shiping ^d   Guo, Liang Dong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GRAZING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SOIL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOTA; GLOBAL WARMING; HERBIVORY; HOT TEMPERATURE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCORRHIZAE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPORES, FUNGAL; TIBET;

EID: 84884608618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076447     Document Type: Article

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