Higher plant diversity promotes higher diversity of fungal pathogens, while it decreases pathogen infection per plant

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1907-1917

  Rottstock, Tanja ^a   Joshi, Jasmin ^a,b   Kummer, Volker ^a   Fischer, Markus ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b BERLIN BRANDENBURG INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH BBIB   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem Processes; Ecosystem Services; Grasslands; Multi Host Multipathogen Interactions; Obligate Parasitic Fungal Pathogens; Pathogen Diversity; Pathogen Proneness; Pathogen Transmission; Plant Functional Types

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; FUNGUS; GRASSLAND; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; OBLIGATE BEHAVIOR; PATHOGEN; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; BIODIVERSITY; HOST PLANT;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS; GERMANY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE;

BIODIVERSITY; FUNGI; GERMANY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ERYSIPHALES; PERONOSPORACEAE; UREDINALES;

EID: 84904318806     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-2317.1     Document Type: Article

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