Grassroots ecology: Plant-microbe-soil interactions as drivers of plant community structure and dynamics

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2281-2291

  Reynolds, Heather L ^a   Packer, Alissa ^a   Bever, James D ^a   Clay, Keith ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Mycorrhizal fungi; N fixing bacteria; Niche partitioning; Plant ecology; Soilborne pathogens; Succession

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; NICHE PARTITIONING; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

FUNGI;

EID: 0344364587     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-0298     Document Type: Review

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