Ectomycorrhizal Fungi Facilitate Competitive Interactions Between Tree Taxa: Host Preference, Seedling Recruitment, and Forest Succession

<p>The mycorrhizal mutualism is one of the earliest and most influential of all terrestrial symbioses. As the primary method used by most plants to acquire nutrients from the soil, mycorrhizal fungi help to shape the structure and composition of many ecosystems. Ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi pl...

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Main Author: Williams, Gwendolyn Clare
Other Authors: Vilgalys, Rytas
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10161/8652