Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity and saprotrophic fungal diversity are linked to different tree community attributes in a field‐based tree experiment

@article{Nguyen2016EctomycorrhizalFD,
  title={Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity and saprotrophic fungal diversity are linked to different tree community attributes in a field‐based tree experiment},
  author={Nhu H. Nguyen and Laura J. Williams and John B. Vincent and Artur Stefanski and Jeannine M. Cavender-Bares and Christian Messier and Alain Paquette and Dominique Gravel and Peter B. Reich and Peter G. Kennedy},
  journal={Molecular Ecology},
  year={2016},
  volume={25}
}
Exploring the link between above‐ and belowground biodiversity has been a major theme of recent ecological research, due in large part to the increasingly well‐recognized role that soil microorganisms play in driving plant community processes. In this study, we utilized a field‐based tree experiment in Minnesota, USA, to assess the effect of changes in plant species richness and phylogenetic diversity on the richness and composition of both ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungal communities… 
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