Inner Mongolian steppe arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities respond more strongly to water availability than to nitrogen fertilization

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3051-3068

  Li, Xiaoliang ^a   Zhu, Tingyao ^a   Peng, Fei ^a   Chen, Qing ^b   Lin, Shan ^a   Christie, Peter ^a   Zhang, Junling ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROPYRON CRISTATUM; FUNGI; STIPA GRANDIS;

NITROGEN; SOIL; WATER;

AGROPYRON; BIOMASS; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS HYPHAE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PLANT ROOT; SOIL;

AGROPYRON; BIOMASS; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; HYPHAE; MYCORRHIZAE; NITROGEN; PLANT ROOTS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER;

EID: 84939214736     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12931     Document Type: Article

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