Plant coexistence in the interactive environment: Arbuscular mycorrhiza should not be out of mind

Oikos

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 202-208

  Zobel, Martin ^a   Moora, Mari ^a   Haukioja, Erkki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; COEXISTENCE; HOST PLANT;

EID: 0030620690     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545818     Document Type: Review

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