Spatial Root Segregation: Are Plants Territorial?

Advances in Ecological Research

Volumn 28, Issue C, 1999, Pages 145-180

  Schenk, H J ^a   Callaway, R M ^a   Mahall, B E ^a  

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DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2504(08)60032-X     Document Type: Article

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