We employed a bioassay using soybean seeds and native prairie bush clover (Lespedeza capitata) seeds to demonstrate that legumes may be rare throughout secondary succession in nitrogen-poor grasslands due to a lack of suitable rhizobia and consequently lower growth rates.
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The American Midland Naturalist
Vol. 140 • No. 1
July 1998
Vol. 140 • No. 1
July 1998