Tropical monodominance: A preliminary test of the ectomycorrhizal hypothesis

Biotropica

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 220-228

  Torti, Sylvia D ^a   Coley, Phyllis D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ectomycorrhizae; Gilbertiodendron dewevrei; Monodominance; Mycorrhizae; Tropical; Vesicular arbuscular

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; PLANT COMMUNITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO;

ANIMALIA; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAE; CYNOMETRA; CYNOMETRA ALEXANDRI; GILBERTIODENDRON DEWEVREI; JULBERNARDIA; JULBERNARDIA SERETII; MYCORRHIZAE;

EID: 0033513557     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.1999.tb00134.x     Document Type: Article

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