Feedback with soil biota contributes to plant rarity and invasiveness in communities

Nature

Volumn 417, Issue 6884, 2002, Pages 67-70

  Klironomos, John N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FEEDBACK; PATHOLOGY; SOILS;

PREDATION TOLERANCE;

FUNGI;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; PLANT COMMUNITY; RARITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; GROWTH INHIBITION; MYCORRHIZA; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL QUALITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURFACE SOIL;

CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; FUNGI; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; POACEAE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CELLULAR ORGANISMS; FUNGI;

EID: 0037007638     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/417067a     Document Type: Article

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