Plant diversity rooted in pathogens

Helene C. Muller-Landau ()
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Helene C. Muller-Landau: Helene C. Muller-Landau is at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado Postal 0843-03092, Panama City, Panama.

Nature, 2014, vol. 506, issue 7486, 44-45

Abstract: Ecologists have long pondered how so many species of plant can coexist locally in tropical forests. It seems that fungal pathogens have a central role, by disadvantaging species where they are locally common. See Letter p.85

Date: 2014
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