Ectomycorrhizal impacts on plant nitrogen nutrition: Emerging isotopic patterns, latitudinal variation and hidden mechanisms

Ecology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 96-107

  Mayor, Jordan ^a   Bahram, Mohammad ^b   Henkel, Terry ^c   Buegger, Franz ^d   Pritsch, Karin ^d   Tedersoo, Leho ^b,e  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

15N; Above and below ground interactions; Nutrient cycling; Nutrient limitation; Plant soil interactions; Structural equation modelling; Tropical ecology

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; SOIL;

CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; NITROGEN CYCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYCORRHIZAE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PLANTS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84916897745     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12377     Document Type: Article

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