Lack of host specificity leads to independent assortment of dipterocarps and ectomycorrhizal fungi across a soil fertility gradient

Ecology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 807-816

  Peay, Kabir G ^a   Russo, Sabrina E ^b   Mcguire, Krista L ^c,d   Lim, Zhenyu ^a   Chan, Ju Ping ^b   Tan, Sylvester ^e   Davies, Stuart J ^e  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^c Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Borneo; Lambir Hills; Mutualism; Mycorrhiza; Plant soil feedback; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

ECTOMYCORRHIZA; FUNGUS; HOST SPECIFICITY; MUTUALISM; RAINFOREST; SOIL FERTILITY; SYMBIOSIS;

BORNEO;

FUNGI;

FUNGAL DNA; SOIL;

BORNEO; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PLANT ROOT; RAIN FOREST; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMBIOSIS; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BORNEO; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGI; LINEAR MODELS; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANT ROOTS; RAINFOREST; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84946410701     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12459     Document Type: Article

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