Substantial compositional turnover of fungal communities in an alpine ridge-to-snowbed gradient

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 5040-5052

  Yao, Fang ^a   Vik, Unni ^a   Brysting, Anne K ^a   Carlsen, Tor ^a   Halvorsen, Rune ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bistorta vivipara; ectomycorrhizae; high throughput sequencing; microbial ecology; ridge to snowbed gradient; root associated fungi

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CORTINARIUS; FUNGI; OTUS; POLYGONUM VIVIPARUM; SEBACINALES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; SNOW;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BISTORTA VIVIPARA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECTOMYCORRHIZAE; GENETICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; NORWAY; PLANT ROOT; POLYGONACEAE; RIDGE-TO-SNOWBED GRADIENT; ROOT-ASSOCIATED FUNGI; SOIL;

BISTORTA VIVIPARA; ECTOMYCORRHIZAE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; RIDGE-TO-SNOWBED GRADIENT; ROOT-ASSOCIATED FUNGI;

BIODIVERSITY; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MYCORRHIZAE; NORWAY; PLANT ROOTS; POLYGONACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SNOW; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84884909315     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12437     Document Type: Article

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