Plant-soil feedbacks as drivers of succession: Evidence from remnant and restored tallgrass prairies

Ecosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Bauer, Jonathan T ^a   Mack, Keenan M L ^b   Bever, James D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Density dependence; Diversity; Grassland; Janzen connell; Mycorrhizal fungi; Soil pathogens

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942803171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES14-00480.1     Document Type: Article

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