Direct and indirect influences of 8 yr of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on Glomeromycota in an alpine meadow ecosystem

• Published in: The New phytologist Vol. 194; no. 2; pp. 523 - 535
• Main Authors: Liu, Yongjun, Shi, Guoxi, Mao, Lin, Cheng, Gang, Jiang, Shengjing, Ma, Xiaojun, An, Lizhe, Du, Guozhen, Collins Johnson, Nancy, Feng, Huyuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK New Phytologist Trust 01.04.2012; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Abundance; alpine meadow ecosystem; alpine meadows; Arbuscular mycorrhizas; Biodiversity; Biological fertilization; Biomass; botanical composition; chemistry; Community composition; Composition; drug effects; Ecosystem; ecosystems; Elymus; Elymus - drug effects; Elymus - microbiology; Elymus nutans; Fertility; Fertilization; Fertilizers; functional equilibrium; Fungal spores; Fungi; Glomeromycota; Glomeromycota - drug effects; Glomeromycota - physiology; Herbivores; Hyphae; Hyphae - drug effects; Hyphae - physiology; Linear Models; Meadows; microbiology; Mycology; mycorrhiza; Mycorrhizae; Mycorrhizae - drug effects; Mycorrhizae - physiology; mycorrhizal fungi; Nitrogen; Nitrogen - pharmacology; nitrogen fertilizers; pharmacology; Phosphorus; Phosphorus - pharmacology; physiology; Plant communities; Plant roots; Plants; plateaus; resource availability; Roots; Soil; Soil - chemistry; Soil composition; Soil ecology; Soil fertility; Soil fungi; soil resources; Species richness; Species Specificity; Spores, Fungal; Spores, Fungal - drug effects; Spores, Fungal - physiology; Sustainability; Sustainable ecosystems; Tibet; vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae; Tibet

We measured the influences of soil fertility and plant community composition on Glomeromycota, and tested the prediction of the functional equilibrium hypothesis that increased availability of soil resources will reduce the abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. Communities of plants and AM...