| Title |
The interactions between plant life form and fungal traits of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi determine the symbiotic community
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| Published in |
Oecologia, September 2014
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00442-014-3091-7 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Álvaro López-García, Concepción Azcón-Aguilar, José M. Barea |
| Abstract |
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi have traditionally been considered generalist symbionts. However, an increasing number of studies are pointing out the selectivity potential of plant hosts. Plant life form, determined by plant life history traits, seems to drive the AM fungal community composition. The AM fungi also exhibit a wide diversity of functional traits known to be responsible for their distribution in natural ecosystems. However, little is known about the role of plant and fungal traits driving the resultant symbiotic assemblages. With the aim of testing the feedback relationship between plant and fungal traits on the resulting AM fungal community, we inoculated three different plant life forms, i.e. annual herbs, perennial herbs and perennial semi-woody plants, with AM fungal communities sampled in different seasons. We hypothesized that the annual climate variation will induce changes in the mean traits of the AM fungal communities present in the soil throughout the year. Furthermore, the association of plants with different life forms with AM fungi with contrasting life history traits will show certain preferences according to reciprocal traits of the plants and fungi. We found changes in the AM fungal community throughout the year, which were differentially disrupted by disturbance and altered by plant growth form and plant biomass. Both plant and fungal traits clearly contributed to the resultant AM fungal communities. The revealed process can have implications for the functioning of ecosystems since changes in dominant plant life forms or climatic variables could influence the traits of AM fungal communities in soil and hence ecosystem processes. |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
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| United States | 4 | 3% |
| Mexico | 2 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Argentina | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 110 | 92% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 34 | 29% |
| Researcher | 18 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 8% |
| Other | 19 | 16% |
| Unknown | 18 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 61 | 51% |
| Environmental Science | 17 | 14% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 3% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 4 | 3% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 9 | 8% |
| Unknown | 21 | 18% |
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