Journal
ECOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 17, Issue 12, Pages 1613-1621Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12378
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AMF; Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; exotic; Glomus etunicatum; introduced; old field; phylogenetic signal; phylogeny; plant community assembly; plant-soil feedbacks
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- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1120387] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We examined whether plant-soil feedback and plant-field abundance were phylogenetically conserved. For 57 co-occurring native and exotic plant species from an old field in Canada, we collected a data set on the effects of threesoil biota treatments on plant growth: net whole-soil feedback (combined effects of mutualists and antagonists), feedback with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) collected from soils of conspecific plants, and feedback with Glomus etunicatum, a dominant mycorrhizal fungus. We found phylogenetic signal in both net whole-soil feedback and feedback with AMF of conspecifics; conservatism was especially strong among native plants but absent among exotics. The abundance of plants in the field was also conserved, a pattern underlain by shared plant responses to soil biota. We conclude that soil biota influence the abundance of close plant relatives in nature.
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