Intra-plant versus inter-plant root competition in beans: Avoidance, resource matching or tragedy of the commons

Plant Ecology

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 235-247

  Maina, Godfrey G ^a   Brown, Joel S ^a   Gersani, Mordechai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Crop yield; Evolutionary game theory; Nutrient foraging; Plant competition; Root competition

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LEGUME; ROOT COMPETITION;

PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 0036077497     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015822003011     Document Type: Article

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