Soil pathogens and spatial patterns of seedling mortality in a temperate tree

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6775, 2000, Pages 278-281

  Packer, Allssa ^a   Clay, Keith ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; OOMYCETES; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TREATMENT; TREE;

ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; INDIANA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; ROSALES; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

ANIMALIA; OOMYCETES; PRUNUS; PRUNUS SEROTINA; PYTHIUM; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 0034673726     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35005072     Document Type: Article

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