Fungi at a Small Scale: Spatial Zonation of Fungal Assemblages around Single Trees

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Branco, Sara ^a   Bruns, Thomas D ^a   Singleton, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PINE; PINUS MURICATA; PLANT AGE; PLANT ROOT; PYROSEQUENCING; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNITED STATES; ZONATION;

FUNGI; TREES;

EID: 84885760331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078295     Document Type: Article

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