Plant-soil feedbacks shift from negative to positive with decreasing light in forest understory species

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2523-2532

  Smith, Lauren M ^a   Reynolds, Heather L ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic gradient; Coexistence; Context dependence; Forest understory; Invasive species; Light; Plant soil feedbacks

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC FACTOR; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOMASS; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; UNDERSTORY;

SOIL;

BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; FOREST; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIOMASS; FORESTS; LIGHT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANTS; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84942279385     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 19399170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-2150.1     Document Type: Article

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