Dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community structure and functioning along a nitrogen enrichment gradient in an alpine meadow ecosystem

• Published in: The New phytologist Vol. 220; no. 4; pp. 1222 - 1235
• Main Authors: Jiang, Shengjing, Liu, Yongjun, Luo, Jiajia, Qin, Mingsen, Johnson, Nancy Collins, Öpik, Maarja, Vasar, Martti, Chai, Yuxing, Zhou, Xiaolong, Mao, Lin, Du, Guozhen, An, Lizhe, Feng, Huyuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England New Phytologist Trust 01.12.2018; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Abundance; alpine meadow ecosystem; alpine meadows; Arbuscular mycorrhizas; Availability; Community composition; Community structure; Composition; Dynamics; Ecosystems; Elymus nutans; Enrichment; fertilization; fungal communities; fungal community; Fungi; greenhouses; growth response; Herbivores; Inoculation; Meadows; mycorrhiza; mycorrhizal fungi; Nitrogen; nitrogen deposition; Nitrogen enrichment; Parasitism; Phosphorus; Plant communities; Plant species; plant–microbe interaction; Roots; Soil; Species richness; Structure-function relationships; Sustainability; Sustainable ecosystems; Tibetan Plateau; vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae; Tibetan Plateau; growth response; fertilization; fungal community; mycorrhiza; alpine meadow ecosystem; nitrogen deposition; plant-microbe interaction

Nitrogen (N) availability is increasing dramatically in many ecosystems, but the influence of elevated N on the functioning of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi in natural ecosystems is not well understood. We measured AM fungal community structure and mycorrhizal function simultaneously across an e...