ArticleNature communications2023
Higher productivity in forests with mixed mycorrhizal strategies.
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- Resource availability enhances positive tree functional diversity effects on carbon and nitrogen accrual in natural forests.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Metabolomics Revealed the Tolerance and Growth Dynamics of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) to Soil Salinity in Licorice.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Forest carbon stocks increase with higher dominance of ectomycorrhizal trees in high latitude forests.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Sustainable Development versus Extractivist Deforestation in Tropical, Subtropical, and Boreal Forest Ecosystems: Repercussions and Controversies about the Mother Tree and the Mycorrhizal Network Hypothesis.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Age-Related Conservation in Plant-Soil Feedback Accompanied by Ectomycorrhizal Domination in Temperate Forests in Northeast China.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Tree diversity increases productivity through enhancing structural complexity across mycorrhizal types.Science advances · 2023Article
- Ectomycorrhizal Community Shifts at a Former Uranium Mining Site.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Decades of theory and empirical studies have demonstrated links between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, yet the putative processes that underlie these patterns remain elusive. This is especially true for forest ecosystems, where the functional traits of plant species are challenging to quantify. We analyzed 74,563 forest inventory plots that span 35 ecoregions in the contiguous USA and found that in ~77% of the ecoregions mixed mycorrhizal plots were more productive than plots where either arbuscular or ectomycorrhizal fungal-associated tree species were dominant. Moreover, the positive effects of mixing mycorrhizal strategies on forest productivity were more pronounced at low than high tree species richness. We conclude that at low richness different mycorrhizal strategies may allow tree species to partition nutrient uptake and thus can increase community productivity, whereas at high richness other dimensions of functional diversity can enhance resource partitioning and community productivity. Our findings highlight the importance of mixed mycorrhizal strategies, in addition to that of taxonomic diversity in general, for maintaining ecosystem functioning in forests.
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