Differential effectiveness of novel and old legume-rhizobia mutualisms: Implications for invasion by exotic legumes

Oecologia

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 253-261

  Rodríguez Echeverría, Susana ^a   Fajardo, Susana ^b   Ruiz Díez, Beatriz ^b   Fernández Pascual, Mercedes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS AGRARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acacia; Bradyrhizobium; Cytisus; Nitrogen; Ulex

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LEGUME; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MUTUALISM; NATIVE SPECIES; NITROGEN; NODULATION; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SPECIALIZATION;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FABACEAE; FORECASTING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; RHIZOBIACEAE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SYMBIOSIS;

ECOSYSTEM; FABACEAE; FORECASTING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; RHIZOBIACEAE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ACACIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIACEAE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; CYTISUS; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; ULEX;

EID: 84865613348     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2299-7     Document Type: Article

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