Journal
MYCORRHIZA
Volume 27, Issue 5, Pages 431-440Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00572-016-0759-3
Keywords
AMF; Agriculture; Root colonization; Disturbance types; Life history strategies
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- NSERC Discovery Grant as well as a Gledden Fellowship through the Institute of Advanced Studies at The University of Western Australia
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Anthropogenic disturbance is one of the most important forces shaping soil ecosystems. While organisms that live in the soil, such as arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, are sensitive to disturbance, their response is not always predictable. Given the range of disturbance types and differences among AM fungi in their growth strategies, the unpredictability of the responses of AM fungi to disturbance is not surprising. We investigated the role of disturbance type (i.e., soil disruption, agriculture, host perturbation, and chemical disturbance) and fungus identity on disturbance response in the AM symbiosis. Using meta-analysis, we found evidence for differential disturbance response among AM fungal species, as well as evidence that particular fungal species are especially susceptible to certain disturbance types, perhaps because of their life history strategies.
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