Ectomycorrhizal fungal traits reflect environmental conditions along a coastal California edaphic gradient

HV Moeller, KG Peay, T Fukami - FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Multispecies mutualisms, such as the association between trees and ectomycorrhizal fungi,
are often shaped by environmental context. Here, we explored the functional mechanisms …

Convergence in mycorrhizal fungal communities due to drought, plant competition, parasitism, and susceptibility to herbivory: consequences for fungi and host plants

CA Gehring, RC Mueller, KE Haskins… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Plants and mycorrhizal fungi influence each other's abundance, diversity, and distribution.
How other biotic interactions affect the mycorrhizal symbiosis is less well understood …

Plant genetics and interspecific competitive interactions determine ectomycorrhizal fungal community responses to climate change

C Gehring, D Flores‐Rentería, CM Sthultz… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Although the importance of plant‐associated microbes is increasingly recognized, little is
known about the biotic and abiotic factors that determine the composition of that microbiome …

Soil fungal community composition and functional similarity shift across distinct climatic conditions

A Bui, D Orr, M Lepori-Bui, K Konicek… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A large part of ecosystem function in woodland systems depends on soil fungal
communities. However, global climate change has the potential to fundamentally alter these …

Predictors of taxonomic and functional composition of black spruce seedling ectomycorrhizal fungal communities along peatland drainage gradients

SF Hupperts, EA Lilleskov - Mycorrhiza, 2022 - Springer
Many trees depend on symbiotic ectomycorrhizal fungi for nutrients in exchange for
photosynthetically derived carbohydrates. Trees growing in peatlands, which cover 3% of …

Common garden experiments disentangle plant genetic and environmental contributions to ectomycorrhizal fungal community structure

A Patterson, L Flores‐Rentería, A Whipple… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The interactions among climate change, plant genetic variation and fungal mutualists are
poorly understood, but probably important to plant survival under drought. We examined …

Distributions of ectomycorrhizal and foliar endophytic fungal communities associated with Pinus ponderosa along a spatially constrained elevation gradient

EA Bowman, AE Arnold - American Journal of Botany, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the Study Understanding distributions of plant‐symbiotic fungi is important for
projecting responses to environmental change. Many coniferous trees host ectomycorrhizal …

High richness of ectomycorrhizal fungi and low host specificity in a coastal sand dune ecosystem revealed by network analysis

A Roy‐Bolduc, E Laliberté, M Hijri - Ecology and Evolution, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi are ubiquitous in temperate and boreal forests, comprising over
20,000 species forming root symbiotic associations with Pinaceae and woody angiosperms …

Tree genotype influences ectomycorrhizal fungal community structure: ecological and evolutionary implications

LJ Lamit, LM Holeski, L Flores-Renteria, TG Whitham… - Fungal Ecology, 2016 - Elsevier
Although the eco-evolutionary dynamics of multicellular organisms are intertwined with the
microorganisms that colonize them, there is only a rudimentary understanding of how a …

Ectomycorrhizal fungal hyphae communities vary more along a pH and nitrogen gradient than between decayed wood and mineral soil microsites

JKM Walker, LA Phillips, MD Jones - Botany, 2014 - cdnsciencepub.com
Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungal community composition is structured by soil properties, but
specialization for woody microsites by ECM fungi is equivocal. Because fungal mycelia …