Experimental evidence for a phylogenetic Janzen-Connell effect in a subtropical forest

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 111-118

  Liu, Xubing ^a   Liang, Minxia ^a   Etienne, Rampal S ^b   Wang, Yongfan ^a   Staehelin, Christian ^a   Yu, Shixiao ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fungi; Host specificity; Pathogens; Phylogenetic distance; Seedling survival; Species coexistence; Subtropical forest

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; EVERGREEN TREE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGICIDE; INHIBITION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; SEEDLING; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEEDLING; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEEDLING; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

CHINA; GUANGDONG;

CASTANOPSIS FISSA; FUNGI;

EID: 84855425506     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01715.x     Document Type: Article

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