Despite spillover, a shared pathogen promotes native plant persistence in a cheatgrass-invaded grassland

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2744-2753

  Mordecai, Erin A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Black fingers of death; Bromus tectorum; Cheatgrass; Coexistence; Elymus elymoides; Mathematical model; Pathogen spillover; Pyrenophora semeniperda; Squirreltail

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DISEASE INCIDENCE; GRASSLAND; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NATIVE SPECIES; PATHOGEN; PERSISTENCE; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION GROWTH;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ECOSYSTEM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84892173256     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0086.1     Document Type: Article

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