Dynamics within mutualism and the maintenance of diversity: Inference from a model of interguild frequency dependence

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 52-61

  Bever, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Coevolution; Community dynamics; Diversity; Feedback; Frequency dependence; Guild dynamics; Mutualism

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAE; FUNGI;

EID: 0033027347     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.21050.x     Document Type: Article

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