Incorporating the soil community into plant population dynamics: The utility of the feedback approach

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 561-573

  Bever, James D ^a,b   Westover, Kristi M ^a   Antonovics, Janis ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Ecological theory; Mutualism; Pathogens; Spatial simulations

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK APPROACH; PLANT POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL COMMUNITY;

EID: 0030821424     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2960528     Document Type: Review

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