Mechanisms and implications of bacterial–fungal competition for soil resources

C Wang, Y Kuzyakov - The ISME Journal, 2024 - academic.oup.com
fungi—the two major kingdoms in soil—the mechanisms of their competition for these and
other resources… , and the global change impacts on this competition. The normalized microbial …

Fungal ecology: principles and mechanisms of colonization and competition by saprotrophic fungi

L Boddy, J Hiscox - Microbiology spectrum, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
competition are the main focus of this paper and are discussed separately below, largely
drawing on wood decay fungi for … growing through soil, hence preventing other fungi from using …

Soil fungal resources in annual cropping systems and their potential for management

W Ellouze, A Esmaeili Taheri… - BioMed research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
soil fungal resources and where the fungi living in close association with plant roots constitute
the manageable resource (… by their fungal endophytes [49] including competition for niche …

Resource availability underlies the plant‐fungal diversity relationship in a grassland ecosystem

LC Cline, SE Hobbie, MD Madritch, CR Buyarski… - Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… richness until competition for mineral nutrients leads to declining fungal richness (solid
line; … whether variation in soil process rates correlated with fungal richness and fungal β-diversity, …

Outcomes of fungal interactions are determined by soil invertebrate grazers

TW Crowther, L Boddy, TH Jones - Ecology Letters, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… , including resource availability. We show that invertebrate grazers can exert selective
pressures on fungal decomposer communities in soil, reversing the outcomes of competitive

Mycorrhizal fungal identity and diversity relaxes plant–plant competition

C Wagg, J Jansa, M Stadler, B Schmid… - Ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… In this study, the effects of AMF species richness and soil conditions on competitive
interactions between a grass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) and a legume (Trifolium pratense L.) were …

Microbial mediation of plant competition and community structure

A Hodge, AH Fitter - Functional Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… the fungal partners not as mere extensions of the plant. The suggestion that AM fungi may act
to share resources … N and/or P acquired by the fungus from soil is partitioned among hosts. …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal effects on plant competition and community structure

G Lin, ML McCormack, D Guo - Journal of Ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… Given that plant traits, soil nutrient conditions and probably mycorrhizal fungal traits are all
factors determining the degree of mycorrhizal response of plant species, future studies should …

Facilitative interactions rather than resource partitioning drive diversity‐functioning relationships in laboratory fungal communities

AV Tiunov, S Scheu - Ecology Letters, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… substratum (sterilized forest soil), or a single-resource … with five common species of soil fungi
in all possible combinations (… Competitive or synergistic interactions between fungal species …

Relative importance of competition and plant–soil feedback, their synergy, context dependency and implications for coexistence

Y Lekberg, JD Bever, RA Bunn, RM Callaway… - Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… Furthermore, the use of fungicide in PSF research can be an important experimental tool,
especially in the field, as soil fungi arguably constitute one of the most important groups of …