Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi counteract the Janzen-Connell effect of soil pathogens

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 562-574

  Liang, Minxia ^a   Liu, Xubing ^a,b   Etienne, Rampal S ^b   Huang, Fengmin ^a   Wang, Yongfan ^a   Yu, Shixiao ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Distance dependence; Host specificity; Pathogens; Seedling survival; Subtropical forest

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; CONSPECIFIC; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; HOST SPECIFICITY; PATHOGEN; PHYLOGENETICS; SEEDLING; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

CHINA;

FUNGI;

CLASSIFICATION; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZAE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASES; SEEDLING; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

MYCORRHIZAE; PLANT DISEASES; SEEDLING; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

EID: 84927939268     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-0871.1     Document Type: Article

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