Application of mycorrhizal roots improves growth of tropical tree seedlings in the nursery: A step towards reforestation with native species in the Andes of Ecuador

Most tree species in tropical mountain rain forests are naturally associated with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Previous studies in southern Ecuador of 115 tree species revealed that only three species were not associated with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Seedlings of tropical tree species raised i...

• Main Author: Gunter, S. (author)
• Other Authors: Aguirre, N. (author), Kottke, I. (author), Stimm, B. (author), Urgiles, N. (author), Blaschke, H. (author), Lojan, P. (author)
• Format: article
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: cedrela montana; ecuador; heliocarpus americanus; native mycorrhizal fungi; nursery; tropical mountain rain forest
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11056-009-9143-x; http://dspace.utpl.edu.ec/handle/123456789/19203