The functioning of ectomycorrhizal fungi in the field: linkages in space and time

MP Amaranthus, DA Perry - Plant and soil, 1994 - Springer
Ectomycorrhizal fungi are the primary interface between roots and the forest soil and … of
VA and ectomycorrhizal fungi in forest soils of southwest Oregon and northern California. Ph.D. …

Fine scale distribution of ectomycorrhizal fungi and roots across substrate layers including coarse woody debris in a mixed forest

L Tedersoo, U Kõljalg, N Hallenberg… - New …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… CWD plays an important role as a habitat both for roots and ECM fungi. We suggest sampling
larger soil cores and selecting random root tips in future studies. Sequencing is a powerful …

Ectomycorrhizal fungi and their enzymes in soils: is there enough evidence for their role as facultative soil saprotrophs?

P Baldrian - Oecologia, 2009 - Springer
… As several recent studies have demonstrated, forest soils are spatially heterogeneous, …
The litter horizon of a temperate forest thus contains approximately 4–10 times more fungal

Application of specific ectomycorrhizal fungi in world forestry

DH Marx, SB Maul, CE Cordell - Frontiers in industrial mycology, 1992 - Springer
… in forest soils and … fungi in ectomycorrhizal fungus successions in forests. In aseptic culture
(ie, without competition and other stresses), early- and late-stage fungi form ectomycorrhizae

Decreased soil organic P fraction associated with ectomycorrhizal fungal activity to meet increased P demand under N application in a subtropical forest ecosystem

Y Fan, F Lin, L Yang, X Zhong, M Wang, J Zhou… - … and fertility of Soils, 2018 - Springer
… noted, suggesting that ectomycorrhizal fungi can play a major role in the depletion of soil
organic P, … This study aimed to determine the changes in forest soil P fractions and elucidate the …

Production of external mycelium by ectomycorrhizal fungi in a Norway spruce forest was reduced in response to nitrogen fertilization

LO Nilsson, H Wallander - New Phytologist, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… (2001), using fungal in-growth bags filled with sand. These are buried in forest soil for about
6 months or more and the nylon mesh allows fungal hyphae, but not roots, to enter. Analysis …

Exploring the role of ectomycorrhizal fungi in soil carbon dynamics

DR Zak, PT Pellitier, WA Argiroff, B Castillo… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… Finally, studying a range of ECM communities across soil fertility gradients, soil textures
and forest communities provides a means by which to better understand the contexts where …

Detection of forest stand-level spatial structure in ectomycorrhizal fungal communities

EA Lilleskov, TD Bruns, TR Horton… - FEMS microbiology …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
… Examples of four types of standardized variograms encountered when analyzing the spatial
patterns of abundance of individual ectomycorrhizal fungal species in the present study: (a) (…

Ectomycorrhizal fungi decompose soil organic matter using oxidative mechanisms adapted from saprotrophic ancestors

F Shah, C Nicolás, J Bentzer, M Ellström… - New …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… The other main functional group of fungi in northern forest soils comprises the ectomycorrhizal
(ECM) symbionts. ECM fungi are biotrophs that obtain photosynthetic sugars from the host …

Ectomycorrhizal fungi in mineral soil

A Rosling, N Rosenstock - Mineralogical Magazine, 2008 - cambridge.org
… distribution in a podzol soil profile. Introduction Ectomycorrhizal fungi in boreal forest soil
Most of the terrestrial northern hemisphere is covered by the boreal forest biome in which the …