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Bare soil cover and arbuscular mycorrhizal community in the first montane forest restoration in Central Argentina

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RESTORATION ECOLOGY
卷 27, 期 4, 页码 804-812

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12937

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arbuscular mycorrhizal community; bare soil cover; mountain forest; restoration

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  1. Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica [PICT 2008-438]
  2. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET) [PIP 0269]
  3. Secretaria de Ciencia y Tecnica of the National University of Cordoba (SECyT-UNC)

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Soil erosion affects extensive areas worldwide and must be urgently reduced promoting plant cover and beneficial microorganisms associated with plants, including arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). In mountain environments, plant cover is difficult to enhance due to harsh conditions during the dry season and steep slopes. Our objective was to evaluate the percentage of the soil surface covered by plants and the AMF community associated with trees 12.5 years after planting during forest restoration efforts in microsites at different levels of soil degradation. The study was performed in the first montane forest restoration initiative of Central Argentina, where one of the trials consisted of planting Polylepis australis saplings at microsites with different levels of soil degradation: high, intermediate, and low. After 12.5 years, percentage of bare soil cover was significantly reduced by 36 and 37% in the high and intermediate degradation microsites, respectively. Low degradation microsites were initially very low in bare soil and did not significantly change. Mycorrhizal colonization, hyphae, vesicles, arbuscules, AMF diversity, and community structure were similar among microsite types. Percentage of hyphal entry points was higher at microsites with low degradation, number of spores was higher in high and intermediate degradation, and species richness was higher in high degradation. Acaulospora and Glomus were the most abundant genera in all microsites. We conclude that even in the most degraded microsites around 2.8% of the bare soil is covered by vegetation each year and that the arbuscular mycorrhizal community is highly tolerant and adapted to soils with different disturbance types.

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