Understanding how abiotic conditions mediate the outcome of biotic interactions is a key
question in community ecology. This is particularly interesting in the case of mutualisms …

The outcome of species interactions often depends on the environmental conditions under
which they occur. In this study, we tested how different soil moisture conditions affected the …

Summary 1 Abiotic disturbance plays an important role in determining assemblage structure
and maintaining species richness in many ecosystems. Disturbances events are complex …

Purpose Mycorrhizal interactions can drive plant productivity, diversity, and ecosystem
function; however, gaps remain in our understanding of interactions among plants and …

Interactions with symbiotic microbes, such as mycorrhizal fungi, have the potential to greatly
influence plant growth, but it is unclear whether field variation in symbiont availability is …

Seedlings of forest tree species are exposed to a number of abiotic (organ loss or damage,
light shortage) and biotic (interspecific competition) stress factors, which may lead to an …

We examined the roles that seasonal shifts in precipitation and temperature played in the
ectomycorrhizal (ECM) colonization of pinyon pine (Pinus edulis Engelm.) at two contrasting …

Because different species of mycorrhizal fungi have different effects on the growth of
particular plant species, variation in mycorrhizal fungus species composition could cause …

Millions of hectares of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) forests provide most of the wood resource in
the northern hemisphere. Among these forests, those that are fire-prone concentrate an …

Root systems are simultaneously colonized by multiple individuals of mycorrhizal fungi.
Intraspecific competitive interactions between fungal isolates are likely to affect both fungal …