Does host plant richness explain diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi? Re-evaluation of Gao et al. (2013) data sets reveals sampling effects

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 992-995

  Tedersoo, Leho ^a   Bahram, Mohammad ^a   Dickie, Ian A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

biodiversity; chimeric sequences; erroneous statistics; metastudy; sampling design; species richness; taxonomic sampling effect

Indexed keywords

FUNGI;

ANGIOSPERM; BIODIVERSITY; CHIMERIC SEQUENCES; ERRONEOUS STATISTICS; GENETICS; METASTUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; REVIEW; SAMPLING DESIGN; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMIC SAMPLING EFFECT;

BIODIVERSITY; CHIMERIC SEQUENCES; ERRONEOUS STATISTICS; METASTUDY; SAMPLING DESIGN; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMIC SAMPLING EFFECT;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIODIVERSITY; MYCORRHIZAE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84896690830     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12660     Document Type: Review

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