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NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
卷 6, 期 4, 页码 375-+出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01663-9
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- NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Boulder, Colorado
- Swiss National Science Foundation [PZ00P3_17990]
- US National Science Foundation [MSB-1638577]
- DOB Ecology
Most trees on Earth form a symbiotic relationship with specific fungi, which can generate positive feedbacks to maintain the stability of forests.
Most trees on Earth form a symbiosis with either arbuscular mycorrhizal or ectomycorrhizal fungi. By forming common mycorrhizal networks, actively modifying the soil environment and other ecological mechanisms, these contrasting symbioses may generate positive feedbacks that favour their own mycorrhizal strategy (that is, the con-mycorrhizal strategy) at the expense of the alternative strategy. Positive con-mycorrhizal feedbacks set the stage for alternative stable states of forests and their fungi, where the presence of different forest mycorrhizal strategies is determined not only by external environmental conditions but also mycorrhiza-mediated feedbacks embedded within the forest ecosystem. Here, we test this hypothesis using thousands of US forest inventory sites to show that arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal tree recruitment and survival exhibit positive con-mycorrhizal density dependence. Data-driven simulations show that these positive feedbacks are sufficient in magnitude to generate and maintain alternative stable states of the forest mycobiome. Given the links between forest mycorrhizal strategy and carbon sequestration potential, the presence of mycorrhizal-mediated alternative stable states affects how we forecast forest composition, carbon sequestration and terrestrial climate feedbacks. Forests tend to be comprised of tree species that mostly associate with either arbuscular or ectomycorrhizal fungi. The authors show that positive feedbacks maintain this biomodal distribution of dominant mycorrhizal associations across US forest inventory plots.
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