Conspecific plant-soil feedbacks of temperate tree species in the southern Appalachians, USA.

Many tree species have seedling recruitment patterns suggesting that they are affected by non-competitive distance-dependent sources of mortality. We conducted an experiment, with landscape-level replication, to identify cases of negative distance-dependent effects and whether variation in these eff...

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Main Authors: Kurt O Reinhart, Daniel Johnson, Keith Clay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3393703?pdf=render