Soil fungal communities of grasslands are environmentally structured at a regional scale in the Alps

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 4274-4290

  Pellissier, L ^a,c   Niculita Hirzel, H ^a   Dubuis, A ^a   Pagni, M ^b,c   Guex, N ^b,c   Ndiribe, C ^a,b   Salamin, N ^a,b   Xenarios, I ^b   Goudet, J ^a,b   Sanders, I R ^a   Guisan, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c Vital IT Group SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Génopode Building ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

454 pyrosequencing; alpine grassland; elevation gradient; environmental gradients; phylogenetic diversity; plant fungi interactions; soil fungal community

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; OTUS;

FUNGAL DNA;

454 PYROSEQUENCING; ALPINE GRASSLAND; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELEVATION GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS; FUNGUS; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT-FUNGI INTERACTIONS; POACEAE; SOIL FUNGAL COMMUNITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND;

454 PYROSEQUENCING; ALPINE GRASSLAND; ELEVATION GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS; PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY; PLANT-FUNGI INTERACTIONS; SOIL FUNGAL COMMUNITY;

BIODIVERSITY; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGI; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84906944953     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12854     Document Type: Article

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