Branching out: Towards a trait-based understanding of fungal ecology

Fungal Biology Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 34-41

  Aguilar Trigueros, Carlos A ^a,b   Hempel, Stefan ^a,b   Powell, Jeff R ^c   Anderson, Ian C ^c   Antonovics, Janis ^d   Bergmann, Joana ^a,b   Cavagnaro, Timothy R ^e   Chen, Baodong ^f   Hart, Miranda M ^g   Klironomos, John ^g   Petermann, Jana S ^a,b   Verbruggen, Erik ^a,b   Veresoglou, Stavros D ^a,b   Rillig, Matthias C ^a,b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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

^c WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^f RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Ecosystem processes; Resource allocation; Traits

Indexed keywords

FUNGI;

EID: 84928829844     PISSN: 17494613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fbr.2015.03.001     Document Type: Review

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