Determinants of root-associated fungal communities within Asteraceae in a semi-arid grassland

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 425-436

  Wehner, Jeannine ^a,b   Powell, Jeff R ^c   Muller, Ludo A H ^a   Caruso, Tancredi ^d   Veresoglou, Stavros D ^a,b   Hempel, Stefan ^a,b   Rillig, Matthias C ^a,b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b BERLIN BRANDENBURG INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH BBIB   (Germany)

^c WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Glomeromycota; Host plant phylogeny; Internal transcribed spacer; Plant soil (below ground) interactions; Pyrosequencing; Sebacinales; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894275723     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12197     Document Type: Article

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