The Afterlife of Interspecific Indirect Genetic Effects: Genotype Interactions Alter Litter Quality with Consequences for Decomposition and Nutrient Dynamics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Genung, Mark A ^a   Bailey, Joseph K ^a   Schweitzer, Jennifer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC INDIRECT GENETIC EFFECT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT LITTER; PLANT PARAMETERS; SENESCENCE; SOLIDAGO; SOLIDAGO ALTISSIMA; SOLIDAGO GIGANTEA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BIOMASS; GENOTYPE; NITROGEN; SOLIDAGO;

SOLIDAGO CANADENSIS VAR. SCABRA; SOLIDAGO GIGANTEA;

EID: 84872510050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053718     Document Type: Article

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