Preferential allocation, physio-evolutionary feedbacks, and the stability and environmental patterns of mutualism between plants and their root symbionts

New Phytologist

Volumn 205, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1503-1514

  Bever, James D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon allocation; Cheater; Mutualism; Mycorrhizas; Physio evolutionary feedbacks; Preferential allocation; Symbiosis; Theory

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CARBON; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; MYCORRHIZA; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHOSPHORUS; PHYSIOLOGY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STABILIZATION;

FUNGI;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84922802774     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13239     Document Type: Article

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