Arctic fungal communities associated with roots of Bistorta vivipara do not respond to the same fine-scale edaphic gradients as the aboveground vegetation

New Phytologist

Volumn 205, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1587-1597

  Mundra, Sunil ^a,b   Halvorsen, Rune ^b   Kauserud, Håvard ^b   Müller, Eike ^a   Vik, Unni ^b   Eidesen, Pernille B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bistorta vivipara; Arctic; Fine spatial scale; High throughput sequencing; Root associated fungi (RAF); Semi variance

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FUNGUS; HERB; HETEROGENEITY; PERENNIAL PLANT; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL NUTRIENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ARCTIC;

FUNGI; POLYGONUM VIVIPARUM;

SOIL;

ARCTIC; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; POLYGONACEAE; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ARCTIC REGIONS; BIODIVERSITY; FUNGI; LINEAR MODELS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT ROOTS; POLYGONACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL;

EID: 84922774654     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13216     Document Type: Article

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