Shifts in symbiotic associations in plants capable of forming multiple root symbioses across a long-term soil chronosequence

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2368-2377

  Albornoz, Felipe E ^a   Lambers, Hans ^a   Turner, Benjamin L ^a,b   Teste, François P ^a,c   Laliberté, Etienne ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN LUIS   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Chronosequence; Ectomycorrhizal fungi; Nitrogen fixation; Pedogenesis; Phosphorus; Rhizobia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959862921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2000     Document Type: Article

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