Negative feedback within a mutualism: Host-specific growth of mycorrhizal fungi reduces plant benefit

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1509, 2002, Pages 2595-2601

  Bever, James D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Maintenance of diversity; Mutualism; Mycorrhizae; Negative feedback; Plant microbe interactions

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; MUTUALISM; MYCORRHIZA; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; GROWTH STIMULATION; MYCORRHIZA; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; PLANT ECOLOGY; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS;

DICHANTHELIUM SPHAEROCARPON SPHAEROCARPON; FUNGI; LANCEOLATA; PANICUM; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA;

EID: 0037160234     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2162     Document Type: Article

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