Nitrogen deposition alters plant-fungal relationships: Linking belowground dynamics to aboveground vegetation change

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1364-1378

  Dean, Sarah L ^a   Farrer, Emily C ^b   Lee Taylor, D ^a,c   Porras Alfaro, Andrea ^a,d   Suding, Katharine N ^b   Sinsabaugh, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

454 pyrosequencing; endophytes; Helotiales; ITS; nitrogen deposition; root fungi

Indexed keywords

DESCHAMPSIA CESPITOSA; FUNGI; GEUM; GEUM ROSSII; HELOTIALES; OTUS;

FUNGAL DNA; NITROGEN;

454 PYROSEQUENCING; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GEUM; HELOTIALES; ITS; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; POACEAE; ROOT FUNGI; SOIL; SYMBIOSIS; UNITED STATES;

454 PYROSEQUENCING; ENDOPHYTES; HELOTIALES; ITS; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; ROOT FUNGI;

COLORADO; DNA, FUNGAL; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; GEUM; MODELS, GENETIC; NITROGEN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; POACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84896333107     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12541     Document Type: Article

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