Glyphosate herbicide affects belowground interactions between earthworms and symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi in a model ecosystem

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zaller, Johann G ^a   Heigl, Florian ^a   Ruess, Liliane ^b   Grabmaier, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; GLYPHOSATE; HERBICIDE; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; BIOMASS; DRUG EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; OLIGOCHAETA; PLANT ROOT; PROCEDURES; SOIL; SYMBIOSIS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; GLYCINE; HERBICIDES; MYCORRHIZAE; OLIGOCHAETA; PLANT ROOTS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84903934761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05634     Document Type: Article

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