Competitive avoidance not edaphic specialization drives vertical niche partitioning among sister species of ectomycorrhizal fungi

AB Mujic, DM Durall, JW Spatafora… - New …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… in determining the distributions and competitive outcomes of the EM sister … of competition,
suggesting that their distributions were not limited by abiotic edaphic factors. In competition

Evidence of species interactions within an ectomycorrhizal fungal community

RT Koide, B Xu, J Sharda, Y Lekberg, N Ostiguy - New Phytologist, 2005 - JSTOR
… Less frequent than predicted co-occurrence of species (avoidance) might be the result of
either antibiosis or a competitive hierarchy, either of which could result in the exclusion of one …

Spatial analysis of ectomycorrhizal fungi reveals that root tip communities are structured by competitive interactions

BJ Pickles, DR Genney, IC Anderson… - Molecular …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… For mycorrhizal fungi, evidence is accumulating that stochastic and competitive interactions
… interactions within a community of ectomycorrhizal ( ECM ) fungi. Co‐occurrence analysis …

Unearthing the roots of ectomycorrhizal symbioses

F Martin, A Kohler, C Murat… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
… and loss of major gene families, ectomycorrhizal fungi have become highly reliant on the …
integrity by avoiding the release of degradative enzymes. Ectomycorrhizal fungi use diffusible …

Does fungal competitive ability explain host specificity or rarity in ectomycorrhizal symbioses?

PG Kennedy, J Gagne, E Perez-Pazos, LA Lofgren… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… inherently poor competitive ability or host growth promotion, but that the timing of colonization
is a key factor determining the outcome of ectomycorrhizal fungal competitive interactions. …

Fungal Fight Club: phylogeny and growth rate predict competitive outcomes among ectomycorrhizal fungi

AH Smith, LM Bogar, HV Moeller - FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… However, the factors that govern competition and coexistence within … competitive assays
between five ectomycorrhizal fungal strains to examine how competition and pH affect fungal

Competition and facilitation in synthetic communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

C Thonar, E Frossard, P Šmilauer, J Jansa - Molecular Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… would specifically colonize distinct root zones to reduce the competitiveavoidance of
competition through spatial separation within the root system could explain the lack of competition

Processes maintaining the coexistence of ectomycorrhizal fungi at a fine spatial scale

LM Bogar, KG Peay - Biogeography of mycorrhizal symbiosis, 2017 - Springer
… scale at which ectomycorrhizal fungi experience resource heterogeneity, competition, and
host … In studies involving multiple ectomycorrhizal fungi competing for host carbon, with niche …

Temperate forests dominated by arbuscular or ectomycorrhizal fungi are characterized by strong shifts from saprotrophic to mycorrhizal fungi with increasing soil depth

A Carteron, M Beigas, S Joly, BL Turner, E Laliberté - Microbial Ecology, 2021 - Springer
… to mycorrhizal fungal dominance with increasing soil depth in all forest mycorrhizal types, …
niche differentiation or competitive exclusion of saprotrophic fungi by EcM fungi [7, 17]. …

Interactions between Tricholomopsis rutilans and ectomycorrhizal fungi in paired culture and in association with seedlings of lodgepole pine and Sitka‐spruce

EA Murphy, DT Mitchell - Forest Pathology, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… of the ectomycorrhizal fungi ranging from overgrowth to avoidance. The ectomycorrhizal fungi
… study, showed variations in their competitive abilities in paired culture with ectomycorrhizal