Plant communities affect arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and community composition in grassland microcosms

• The diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi was investigated in an unfertilized limestone grassland soil supporting different synthesized vascular plant assemblages that had developed for 3 yr. • The experimental treatments comprised: bare soil; monocultures of the nonmycotrophic sedge Care...

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Published in:	The New phytologist Vol. 161; no. 2; pp. 503 - 515
Main Authors:	Johnson, D, Vandenkoornhuyse, P.J, Leake, J.R, Gilbert, L, Booth, R.E, Grime, J.P, Young, J.P.W, Read, D.J
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK Blackwell Science 01.02.2004 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Blackwell
Subjects:	Animal and plant ecology Animal, plant and microbial ecology arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) Bioassay Biological and medical sciences Carex Carex flacca diversity Festuca ovina forbs Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Fungi grasses Grassland soils grasslands Microcosms mycorrhizal fungi phosphorus plant communities plant functional type Plant roots Plantago lanceolata Plants restriction fragment length polymorphism Seedlings shoot nitrogen shoot phosphorus Soil fungi soil properties Soil treatment Species diversity Synecology terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T‐RFLP) Terrestrial ecosystems vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae Symbiosis Grassland arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) Floristic composition Endomycorrhiza Restriction fragment length polymorphism plant functional type; diversity; shoot phosphorus shoot nitrogen Mycorrhiza Biodiversity Colonization terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) diversity shoot phosphorus plant functional type
ISSN:	0028-646X, 1469-8137, 1469-8137
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