Understory plant community composition is associated with fine-scale above- and below-ground resource heterogeneity in mature lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) forests

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  McIntosh, Anne C S ^a,b   Macdonald, S Ellen ^a   Quideau, Sylvie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; FATTY ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ADULT PLANT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CANOPY; CANOPY AND TALL SHRUB BASAL AREA; CANOPY AND TALL SHRUB COVER; CANOPY TREE DENSITY; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; DOWNED WOOD BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FOREST; FOREST FLOOR THICKNESS; FOREST STRUCTURE; INDICATOR ORGANISM; LITTER COVER; MEAN TREE DIAMETER; MOSS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PH; PINE; PINUS CONTORTA; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SUBSTRATE INDUCED RESPIRATION; VEGETATION; BACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA; BIOMARKERS; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PINUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84961574775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151436     Document Type: Article

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