ArticleEcosphere (Washington, D.C)2018
Mycorrhiza in tree diversity-ecosystem function relationships: conceptual framework and experimental implementation.
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- Exploring agro-ecological significance, knowledge gaps, and research priorities in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Pooled it
- Tree diversity and mycorrhizal type independently shape multitrophic biodiversity, with stronger effects belowground than aboveground.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Phytomycobiomes and Ecosystem Services: Mechanisms, Evidence and Routes to Application.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Hydro-Functional Traits and Their Dissimilarity to the Neighbourhood Buffer Tree Growth Against the 2018-2020 Central European Drought.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Towards understanding the impact of mycorrhizal fungal environments on the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2025Article
- Foliar Endophytic Fungal Communities Are Driven by Leaf Traits-Evidence From a Temperate Tree Diversity Experiment.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Interactive effects of leaf pathogens and plant mycorrhizal type on plant diversity-productivity relationships.Ecology · 2025Article
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- Tree diversity increases productivity through enhancing structural complexity across mycorrhizal types.Science advances · 2023Article
- Temporal variation of mycorrhization rates in a tree diversity experiment.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Higher productivity in forests with mixed mycorrhizal strategies.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Differences in Density Dependence among Tree Mycorrhizal Types Affect Tree Species Diversity and Relative Growth Rates.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Nutrient status not secondary metabolites drives herbivory and pathogen infestation across differently mycorrhized tree monocultures and mixtures.Basic and applied ecology · 2021Article
- Distinct effects of host and neighbour tree identity on arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal fungi along a tree diversity gradient.ISME communications · 2021Article
- Mixing tree species associated with arbuscular or ectotrophic mycorrhizae reveals dual mycorrhization and interactive effects on the fungal partners.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Unique and common traits in mycorrhizal symbioses.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2020Review
- How to estimate complementarity and selection effects from an incomplete sample of species.Methods in ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research.Advances in ecological research · 2019Article
- Growing Research Networks on Mycorrhizae for Mutual Benefits.Trends in plant science · 2018Review
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Abstract
The widely observed positive relationship between plant diversity and ecosystem functioning is thought to be substantially driven by complementary resource use of plant species. Recent work suggests that biotic interactions among plants and between plants and soil organisms drive key aspects of resource use complementarity. Here, we provide a conceptual framework for integrating positive biotic interactions across guilds of organisms, more specifically between plants and mycorrhizal types, to explain resource use complementarity in plants and its consequences for plant competition. Our overarching hypothesis is that ecosystem functioning increases when more plant species associate with functionally dissimilar mycorrhizal fungi because differing mycorrhizal types will increase coverage of habitat space for and reduce competition among plants. We introduce a recently established field experiment (MyDiv) that uses different pools of tree species that associate with either arbuscular or ectomycorrhizal fungi to create orthogonal experimental gradients in tree species richness and mycorrhizal associations and present initial results. Finally, we discuss options for future mechanistic studies on resource use complementarity within MyDiv. We show how mycorrhizal types and biotic interactions in MyDiv can be used in the future to test novel questions regarding the mechanisms underlying biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships.
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