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
Niche partitioning has frequently been invoked to explain the coexistence of species that …
While niche partitioning can apply to any species with overlapping resource requirements, …

Investigating niche partitioning of ectomycorrhizal fungi in specialized rooting zones of the monodominant leguminous tree Dicymbe corymbosa

ME Smith, TW Henkel, GC Williams, MC Aime… - New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Niche partitioning in a tropical forest Niche partitioning among ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungal
… of high alpha diversity because increased niche space should facilitate the packing of more …

Little evidence for niche partitioning among ectomycorrhizal fungi on spruce seedlings planted in decayed wood versus mineral soil microsites

JKM Walker, MD Jones - Oecologia, 2013 - Springer
Ectomycorrhizal fungal (EMF) communities vary among … If downed and decayed wood provide
refuge habitat distinct from … Our data suggest that niche partitioning by substrate does not …

Symbiotic niche mapping reveals functional specialization by two ectomycorrhizal fungi that expands the host plant niche

ME Van Nuland, KG Peay - Fungal Ecology, 2020 - Elsevier
… that mycorrhizal benefits depend on interactions between niche axes… resource ratio spectrum,
consistent with niche partitioning and functional specialization. While ectomycorrhizal fungi

Fungal guilds are evenly distributed along a vertical spruce forest soil profile while individual fungi show pronounced niche partitioning

D Peršoh, N Stolle, A Brachmann, D Begerow… - Mycological …, 2018 - Springer
… Searching for evidence of competition between saprotrophic and mycorrhizal fungi, we
analyzed the distribution of fungi along a well-stratified vertical spruce forest soil profile in two …

Heterogeneity of phosphorus sources invokes distinct niche partitioning pathways of ectomycorrhizal fungi in forest soils

X Lin, C Ning, T Liu, D Gao, AR Smith, W Yan… - Soil Biology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
… and ECM fungal community … to niche differentiation among various guilds of fungal groups,
as well as among different ECM taxa, and (ii) the niche partitioning of particular ECM fungal

A first comprehensive census of fungi in soil reveals both hyperdiversity and fine‐scale niche partitioning

DL Taylor, TN Hollingsworth… - Ecological …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… The Helotiales, including many putative ericoid mycorrhizal fungiectomycorrhizal taxa.
Summing across both phyla, OTUs with top matches that are suspected to be ectomycorrhizal

[HTML][HTML] General principles in the community ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi

RT Koide, C Fernandez, K Petprakob - Annals of Forest Science, 2011 - Springer
Habitat partitioning may reduce the frequency or intensity of competitive interactions and …
habitat partitioning plays a role in maintaining diversity in communities of ectomycorrhizal fungi. …

Plant neighbours shape fungal assemblages associated with plant roots: A new understanding of nichepartitioning in plant communities

C Mony, V Gaudu, C Ricono, O Jambon… - Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… of mycorrhizal fungi is crucial, given their tremendous importance in plant nutrition and health.
Differentiation in plant-associated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (… through fungal dispersal …

Thoughts on the processes that maintain local species diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi

TD Bruns - Plant and soil, 1995 - Springer
… , and this diversity of form could lend itself to partitioning by diverse fungal species. Thus, for
investigating resource partitioning of ectomycorrhizal fungi I believe it is useful to define two …