Mycorrhizal networks mediate overstorey-understorey competition in a temperate forest

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 538-546

  Booth, Michael G ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Common mycorrhizal networks; Ecology; Ectomycorrhiza; Facilitation; Forest succession; Plant competition

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECTOMYCORRHIZA; MYCORRHIZA; OVERSTORY; TEMPERATE FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

ACER; ACER RUBRUM; BETULA; BETULA ALLEGHANIENSIS; CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS STROBUS; STROBUS; TSUGA; TSUGA CANADENSIS;

EID: 3042786300     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00605.x     Document Type: Article

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