Land use influences arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in the farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China

New Phytologist

Volumn 204, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 968-978

  Xiang, Dan ^a,d   Verbruggen, Erik ^b,c   Hu, Yajun ^a   Veresoglou, Stavros D ^b,c   Rillig, Matthias C ^b,c   Zhou, Wenping ^a   Xu, Tianle ^a   Li, Huan ^d   Hao, Zhipeng ^a   Chen, Yongliang ^a   Chen, Baodong ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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

^d QINGDAO AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

454 pyrosequencing; Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF); Biodiversity; Driving factor; Land use; The farming pastoral ecotone of northern China

Indexed keywords

FUNGI;

SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GRASSLAND; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCORRHIZAE; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84911979697     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12961     Document Type: Article

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