Evaluating the impacts of multiple generalist fungal pathogens on temperate tree seedling survival

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 511-520

  Hersh, Michelle H ^a,c   Vilgalys, Rytas ^a   Clark, James S ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Co infection; Duke Forest, North Carolina, USA; Forest diversity; Fungi; Host specificity; Janzen Connell hypothesis; Pathogens; Plant fungal interactions; Seedling mortality; Seedling recruitment

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COEXISTENCE; FUNGAL DISEASE; GENERALIST; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NATURAL ENEMY; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEEDLING; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TREE;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; TREE;

ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PLANT DISEASES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; TREES;

DUKE FOREST; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

FUNGI;

EID: 84860238461     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0598.1     Document Type: Article

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