Colonization-competition tradeoffs as a mechanism driving successional dynamics in ectomycorrhizal fungal communities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Kennedy, Peter G ^a   Higgins, Logan M ^a   Rogers, Rachel H ^a   Weber, Marjorie G ^b  

^a LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; MICROCOSM; MYCELIAL GROWTH; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; RHIZOPOGON ACCIDENTALIS; RHIZOPOGON SALEBROSUS; SEEDLING; SUILLUS PUNGENS; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE;

ANIMALIA; PINUS MURICATA; RHIZOPOGON OCCIDENTALIS; SUILLUS PUNGENS;

ECOSYSTEM; MYCORRHIZAE; PINUS; PLANT ROOTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; TREES;

EID: 80052871362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025126     Document Type: Article

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