Maintenance of Plant Species Diversity by Pathogens

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2015, Pages 305-325

  Bever, James D ^a,b   Mangan, Scott A ^c   Alexander, Helen M ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Disease; Microbe; Negative feedback; Species coexistence; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PATHOGEN; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION;

EID: 84948951840     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-112414-054306     Document Type: Article

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