Nurse plants, mycorrhizae, and plant establishment in a disturbed area of the Sonoran Desert

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 321-335

  Carrillo Garcia, A ^a   Leon De La Luz J L ^a   Bashan, Y ^a   Bethlenfalvay, G J ^a,b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS DEL NOROESTE   (Mexico)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; DESERT; LEGUME; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL STABILIZATION;

MEXICO;

EID: 0342751272     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.1999.72027.x     Document Type: Article

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