Inherited fungal symbionts enhance establishment of an invasive annual grass across successional habitats

Oecologia

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 465-475

  Uchitel, Andrea ^a   Omacini, Marina ^a   Chaneton, Enrique J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Endophyte; Invasion; Mutualism; Neotyphodium; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOMASS; CHRONOSEQUENCE; COLONIZATION; ENDOPHYTE; ENDOSYMBIONT; FUNGUS; GRASS; GROWTH RATE; HOST PLANT; INFECTIVITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MUTUALISM; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LOLIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; NEOTYPHODIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; SYMBIOSIS; TIME;

ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; LOLIUM; NEOTYPHODIUM; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEEDS; SYMBIOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

ARGENTINA; PAMPAS;

FUNGI; LOLIUM; LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM; NEOTYPHODIUM; RODENTIA;

EID: 78651420926     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1740-z     Document Type: Article

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