Plant-soil feedbacks provide an additional explanation for diversity-productivity relationships

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1740, 2012, Pages 3020-3026

  Kulmatiski, Andrew ^a   Beard, Karen H ^a   Heavilin, Justin ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Overyielding; Pathogen; Plant soil interaction; Soil; Symbiont; Underyielding

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; MONOCULTURE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SYMBIONT;

EID: 84863109071     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0285     Document Type: Article

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