Nitrogen and phosphorus additions impact arbuscular mycorrhizal abundance and molecular diversity in a tropical montane forest

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3646-3659

  Camenzind, Tessa ^a,b   Hempel, Stefan ^a,b   Homeier, Jürgen ^c   Horn, Sebastian ^a,b   Velescu, Andre ^d   Wilcke, Wolfgang ^e   Rillig, Matthias C ^a,b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

NUMEX; Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Biodiversity; Community; Ecuador; Fertilization; Pyrosequencing; Tropical montane forest

Indexed keywords

FUNGI;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RIBOSOME RNA; SOIL;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECUADOR; FORECASTING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCORRHIZA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT ROOT; PROCEDURES; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECUADOR; FORECASTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCORRHIZAE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT ROOTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84912034021     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12618     Document Type: Article

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