Bay, Guillaume
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Stockholm University
Research article2011Peer reviewedOpen access
Composition and diversity of nifH genes of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria associated with boreal forest feather mosses
Ininbergs, Karolina; Bay, Guillaume; Rasmussen, Ulla; Wardle, David; Nilsson Hegethorn, Marie-Charlotte
Abstract
We demonstrated that the cyanobacterial communities associated with feather mosses show a high degree of host specificity. However, phylotype composition and diversity, and nitrogen fixation, did not differ among groups of islands that varied greatly in their availability of resources. These results suggest that moss species identity, but not extrinsic environmental conditions, serves as the primary determinant of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterial communities that inhabit mosses.
Keywords
boreal forest; cyanobacteria; feather mosses; nifH diversity; nitrogen fixation
Published in
New Phytologist
2011, Volume: 192, number: 2, pages: 507-517
Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL
Wardle, David
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Nilsson Hegethorn, Marie-Charlotte
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use
Publication identifier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03809.x
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/57784