Nutrient loading alters the performance of key nutrient exchange mutualisms

Ecology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 20-28

  Shantz, Andrew A ^a   Lemoine, Nathan P ^a,b   Burkepile, Deron E ^a,c  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Symbiodinium; Coral; Eutrophication; Mutualism; Mycorrhizae; Nutrient loading; Nutrification; Parasitism; Rhizobia; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; FUNGI; SYMBIODINIUM;

PHOSPHORUS;

CARBON CYCLE; HETEROTROPHY; META ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; NITROGEN CYCLE; PHOTOTROPHY; SYMBIOSIS;

CARBON CYCLE; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; NITROGEN CYCLE; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84955394576     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12538     Document Type: Article

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