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Filtering by: Creator Burns, Dale H. File Format application/msword Commencement Year 2006

In search of ecological advantages : Mycorrhizal facilitation of big huckleberry Vaccinium membranaceum (Doug.)

Creator:

Stocking, Peter

Abstract:

Temperate evergreen forests of the Pacific Northwest support big huckleberries (Vaccinium membranaceum) despite their nutrient impoverished soils. Acquisition of nitrogen and phosphorous are the major nutrients limiting V. membranaceum. The plant’s access to these resources is linked to their mycorrhizal symbiosis. To learn more about the symbionts of eriaceous plants...

Resource Type:

Undergraduate Thesis

Full Text:

reduce water loss from the fruit. Following a burn, Hoefs and Shay (1980) observed an increase in shoot