Plant coexistence mediated by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 418-423

  Hart, Miranda M ^a   Reader, Richard J ^a   Klironomos, John N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; COEXISTENCE; FUNGUS; PLANT COMMUNITY;

FUNGI;

EID: 0042165889     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(03)00127-7     Document Type: Review

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