Grazing does not influence soil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity, but increases their interaction complexity with plants in dry grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau

• Published in: Ecological indicators Vol. 148; p. 110065
• Main Authors: Fan, Dandan, Ji, Mukan, Wu, Jianshuang, Chen, Hao, Jia, Hongzeng, Zhang, Xianzhou, Zhuang, Xuliang, Kong, Weidong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2023; Elsevier
• Subjects: animals; Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; China; Community assembly; community structure; ecosystems; Grassland; Grazing; mycorrhizal fungi; Plant–microbe interaction; soil; steppes; Tibetan Plateau; vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae; China; Plant–microbe interaction; Grassland; Tibetan Plateau; Community assembly; Grazing; Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

[Display omitted] •Grazing does not influence soil AMF diversity and community structure.•Grazing enhances AMF-plant interaction complexity.•Grazing increases soil AMF community stochasticity in steppe and desert soils.•Plant richness and AMF-plant interaction drive the AMF community stochasticity....