Soil community feedback and the coexistence of competitors: Conceptual frameworks and empirical tests

New Phytologist

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 465-473

  Bever, James D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION;

FUNGI; NEMATODA;

EID: 0037340293     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00714.x     Document Type: Review

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