Mutualistic fungus promotes plant invasion into diverse communities

Oecologia

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 463-471

  Rudgers, Jennifer A ^a   Mattingly, W Brett ^a   Koslow, Jennifer M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Ecosystem functioning; Invasibility; Neotyphodium; Prairie

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; FUNGUS; INVASIBILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LOLIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIODIVERSITY; HYPOCREALES; LOLIUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS; UNITED STATES;

FUNGI; LOLIUM; NEOTYPHODIUM; NEOTYPHODIUM COENOPHIALUM; SCHEDONORUS ARUNDINACEUS;

EID: 25844517603     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0039-y     Document Type: Article

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