Complementarity in nutrient foraging strategies of absorptive fine roots and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi across 14 coexisting subtropical tree species

New Phytologist

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 125-136

  Liu, Bitao ^a,b,f   Li, Hongbo ^a,f   Zhu, Biao ^c   Koide, Roger T ^d   Eissenstat, David M ^e   Guo, Dali ^a,f  

^a Chinese Ecosystem Research Network   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) colonization; Extramatrical hyphae; Nutrient foraging; Nutrient patch; Root proliferation; Root traits; Subtropical forest

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; COEXISTENCE; COMPLEMENTARITY; FINE ROOT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNGUS; GROWTH; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHOSPHATE; PRUNING; ROOT ARCHITECTURE; ROOT COLONIZATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TREE;

FUNGI;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SOIL;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; SOIL; TREE;

CLIMATE; FUNGI; MYCORRHIZAE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT ROOTS; POTASSIUM; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

EID: 84940467375     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13434     Document Type: Article

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