ArticleMicrobial ecology2015
Moth outbreaks alter root-associated fungal communities in subarctic mountain birch forests.
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- A curated DNA barcode reference library for parasitoids of northern European cyclically outbreaking geometrid moths.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Principal Drivers of Fungal Communities Associated with Needles, Shoots, Roots and Adjacent Soil ofJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Cascading effects of moth outbreaks on subarctic soil food webs.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Understanding Plant Social Networking System: Avoiding Deleterious Microbiota but Calling Beneficials.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Forest Microhabitat Affects Succession of Fungal Communities on Decomposing Fine Tree Roots.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Background insect herbivory increases with local elevation but makes minor contribution to element cycling along natural gradients in the Subarctic.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- GlobalFungi, a global database of fungal occurrences from high-throughput-sequencing metabarcoding studies.Scientific data · 2020Article
- The effects of ectomycorrhizal fungal networks on seedling establishment are contingent on species and severity of overstorey mortality.Mycorrhiza · 2020Article
- Fungal Succession During the Decomposition of Ectomycorrhizal Fine Roots.Microbial ecology · 2020Article
- Large-scale insect outbreak homogenizes the spatial structure of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities.PeerJ · 2019Article
- Influence of leaf damage by the horse chestnut leafminer (Cameraria ohridella Deschka & Dimić) on mycorrhiza of Aesculus hippocastanum L.Mycorrhiza · 2019Article
- Complex effects of mammalian grazing on extramatrical mycelial biomass in the Scandes forest-tundra ecotone.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
- Warming, shading and a moth outbreak reduce tundra carbon sink strength dramatically by changing plant cover and soil microbial activity.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Slowed Biogeochemical Cycling in Sub-arctic Birch Forest Linked to Reduced Mycorrhizal Growth and Community Change after a Defoliation Event.Ecosystems (New York, N.Y.) · 2017Article
- Impact of Heterobasidion root-rot on fine root morphology and associated fungi in Picea abies stands on peat soils.Mycorrhiza · 2016Article
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Abstract
Climate change has important implications on the abundance and range of insect pests in forest ecosystems. We studied responses of root-associated fungal communities to defoliation of mountain birch hosts by a massive geometrid moth outbreak through 454 pyrosequencing of tagged amplicons of the ITS2 rDNA region. We compared fungal diversity and community composition at three levels of moth defoliation (intact control, full defoliation in one season, full defoliation in two or more seasons), replicated in three localities. Defoliation caused dramatic shifts in functional and taxonomic community composition of root-associated fungi. Differentially defoliated mountain birch roots harbored distinct fungal communities, which correlated with increasing soil nutrients and decreasing amount of host trees with green foliar mass. Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) abundance and richness declined by 70-80 % with increasing defoliation intensity, while saprotrophic and endophytic fungi seemed to benefit from defoliation. Moth herbivory also reduced dominance of Basidiomycota in the roots due to loss of basidiomycete EMF and increases in functionally unknown Ascomycota. Our results demonstrate the top-down control of belowground fungal communities by aboveground herbivory and suggest a marked reduction in the carbon flow from plants to soil fungi following defoliation. These results are among the first to provide evidence on cascading effects of natural herbivory on tree root-associated fungi at an ecosystem scale.
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