The ecosystem and evolutionary contexts of allelopathy

Publication year: 2011 Source: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Available online 14 September 2011  Inderjit, David A. Wardle, Richard Karban, Ragan M. Callaway Plants can release chemicals into the environment that suppress the growth and establishment of other plants in their vicinity: a process known as ‘allelopathy’. However, chemicals with allelopathic functions have other ecological roles, such as plant defense, nutrient chelation, and regulation of soil biota in ways that affect decomposition and soil fertility.

Publication year: 2011 Source: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Available online 14 September 2011  Inderjit, David A. Wardle, Richard Karban, Ragan M. Callaway Plants can release chemicals into the environment that suppress the growth and establishment of other plants in their vicinity: a process known as ‘allelopathy’. However, chemicals with allelopathic functions have other ecological roles, such as plant defense, nutrient chelation, and regulation of soil biota in ways that affect decomposition and soil fertility.

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The ecosystem and evolutionary contexts of allelopathy

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