Mycorrhizal fungi play a critical role in nutrient cycling and ecosystem function. They improve
plant growth and survival through a mutualistic relationship in which photosynthates are …

Understanding how communities assemble is a central goal of ecology. This is particularly
relevant for communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), because the community …

Understanding the ecology of coniferous forests is very important because these
environments represent globally largest carbon sinks. Metatranscriptomics, microbial …

Despite the presence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in temperate forests, knowledge
concerning their diversity and interactions with plants is still insufficient. Therefore, we …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi interact with a wide variety of organisms during all stages
of their life. Some of these interactions such as grazing of the external mycelium are …

Forests are recognised as spatially heterogeneous ecosystems. However, knowledge of the
small-scale spatial variation in microbial abundance, community composition and activity is …

Soil microbial communities affect nutrient cycling and ecosystem functioning. However, the
variations in microbial diversity and community composition within degraded landscapes …

While the effects of habitat size and isolation have been successfully studied for macro‐
organisms, there is currently debate about their relative importance in explaining patterns of …

Organic matter decomposition is the main process by which carbon (C) is lost from terrestrial
ecosystems, and mycorrhizal associations of plants (ie arbuscular mycorrhizas (AM) and …

Both competition and environmental filtering are expected to influence the community
structure of microbes, but there are few tests of the relative importance of these processes …