Quantitative assessment of the differential impacts of arbuscular and ectomycorrhiza on soil carbon cycling

New Phytologist

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 280-293

  Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A ^a,b,c   van der Heijden, Marcel G A ^d,e,f   Cornelissen, Johannes H C ^a   Makarov, Mikhail I ^g   Onipchenko, Vladimir G ^g   Maslov, Mikhail N ^g   Akhmetzhanova, Asem A ^h   van Bodegom, Peter M ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LOUIS BOLK INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^h Teberda State Reserve   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi; Ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi; Extraradical mycelium; Intraradical mycelium; Plant trait; Root length colonization; Root tips; Sub arctic ecosystems

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CARBON BUDGET; DATABASE; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; PHYTOMASS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROOT ARCHITECTURE; ROOT COLONIZATION; SHRUB; SOIL CARBON; TUNDRA;

FUNGI;

CARBON; SOIL;

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCELIUM; MYCORRHIZA; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; SOIL; SYMBIOSIS;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; MYCELIUM; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84940467172     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13447     Document Type: Article

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