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Fine‐scale distribution of pine ectomycorrhizas and their extramatrical mycelium

Overview of attention for article published in New Phytologist, February 2006
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Title
Fine‐scale distribution of pine ectomycorrhizas and their extramatrical mycelium
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New Phytologist, February 2006
DOI 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01669.x
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Authors

David R. Genney, Ian C. Anderson, Ian J. Alexander

Abstract

In order to clarify the functional role of individual ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungal species in the field, we need to relate their abundance and distribution as mycorrhizas to their abundance and distribution as extramatrical mycelium (EMM). We divided each of four 20 cm x 20 cm x 2 cm slices of pine forest soil into 100 cubes of 2 cm x 2 cm. For each cube, ectomycorrhizas were identified and the presence of EMM of the EcM fungi recorded as ectomycorrhizas was determined by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis of ITS rDNA. Ectomycorrhizas and EMM of seven EcM species were mapped. Spatial segregation of mycorrhizas and EMM was evident and some species produced their EMM in different soil layers from their mycorrhizas. The spatial relationship between mycorrhizas and their EMM generally conformed to their reported exploration types, but EMM of smooth types (e.g. Lactarius rufus) was more frequent than expected. Different EcM fungi foraged at different spatial scales.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 3%
France 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Slovenia 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Argentina 1 <1%
Other 3 2%
Unknown 137 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 39 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 36 24%
Student > Master 23 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 7%
Student > Bachelor 9 6%
Other 22 14%
Unknown 13 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 101 66%
Environmental Science 21 14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 1%
Engineering 2 1%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 1%
Other 2 1%
Unknown 23 15%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 March 2014.
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#7,454,951
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Outputs from New Phytologist
#5,363
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#24,191
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Outputs of similar age from New Phytologist
#5
of 19 outputs
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