ArticleThe New phytologist2023
Soil fertility determines whether ectomycorrhizal fungi accelerate or decelerate decomposition in a temperate forest.
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- Contrasting influences of ectomycorrhizal fungi on decomposition depending on soil fertility.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- Impact of nitrogen on ectomycorrhizal fungi: from resource exchange to forest carbon cycling.Journal of experimental botany · 2026Review
- Temperate Forest Floors: Ecosystem Hubs in Transition?Global change biology · 2026Review
- Litter decomposition regulated by stand ECM dominance but not litter mycorrhizal type in a subtropical mountainous forest.Tree physiology · 2026Article
- Grazer exclusion is associated with higher fast-cycling carbon pools but lower slow-cycling mineral-associated carbon across grasslands.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Soil Chemistry and Microbial Community Patterns AcrossMycobiology · 2026Article
- Phytomycobiomes and Ecosystem Services: Mechanisms, Evidence and Routes to Application.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Multi-meta-omics reveal unique symbiotic synchronization between ectomycorrhizal fungus and soil microbiome in Tricholoma matsutake habitat.Microbiome · 2025Article
- The pH influence on ectomycorrhizal nitrogen acquisition and decomposition.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Trees First Inhibit Then Promote Litter Decomposition in the Subarctic.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Environmental dependency of ectomycorrhizal fungi as soil organic matter oxidizers.The New phytologist · 2024Article
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Abstract
Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi can both accelerate and decelerate decomposition of organic matter in forest soils, but a mechanistic understanding of this differential influence is limited. Here, we tested how ECM fungi affect decomposition along a natural fertility gradient in a temperate forest of European beech. Trees were girdled to reduce belowground carbon supply to the soil. Girdling shifted soil fungal community composition and decreased hyphal biomass production and soil CO
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