Spatial patterns of soil pathogens in declining Mediterranean forests: Implications for tree species regeneration

New Phytologist

Volumn 194, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1014-1024

  Gómez Aparicio, Lorena ^a   Ibáñez, Beatriz ^a   Serrano, María S ^b   De Vita, Paolo ^b   Ávila, José M ^a   Pérez Ramos, Ignacio M ^a   García, Luis V ^a   Esperanza Sanchez M ^b   Marañón, Teodoro ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Forest decline; Neighborhood models; Quercus suber; Regeneration dynamics; Soil texture; Soil borne pathogens; Species coexistence

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COEXISTENCE; DECIDUOUS TREE; FOREST SOIL; FUNGAL DISEASE; NEIGHBORHOOD; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; REGENERATION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; OAK; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPHTHORA; PYTHIUM; SEEDLING; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYTOPHTHORA; PYTHIUM; QUERCUS; SEEDLING; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

PHYTOPHTHORA CINNAMOMI; PYTHIUM; QUERCUS SUBER;

EID: 84860456167     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04108.x     Document Type: Article

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