Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 493–502 Abstract Understanding the factors that drive soil
carbon (C) accumulation is of fundamental importance given their potential to mitigate …

In this review, we discuss the potential for mycorrhizal fungi to act as a source or sink for
carbon (C) under elevated CO2 and nitrogen deposition. Mycorrhizal tissue has been …

Mycorrhizal Mediation of Soil: Fertility, Structure, and Carbon Storage offers a better
understanding of mycorrhizal mediation that will help inform earth system models and …

Summary 1 In the conventional view of soil carbon (C) cycling, mycorrhizal fungi are
primarily considered vectors for plant C input to soils. However, there is accumulating …

Understanding what controls the soil organic matter (SOM) storage and its stability is
important to predict how SOM will respond to environmental changes. The role of …

For more than 400 million years, mycorrhizal fungi and plants have formed partnerships that
are crucial to the emergence and functioning of global ecosystems. The importance of these …

Photosynthetic carbon (C) allocated below‐ground can be shared with mycorrhizal fungi in
exchange for nutrients, but also added into soil as rhizodeposits that potentially increases …

Contents Summary 507 I. Introduction 507 II. The return on investment approach 508 III. CO2
response spectrum 510 IV. Discussion 516 Acknowledgements 518 References 518 …

The nutrient and carbon (C) allocation dynamics in mycorrhizal hyphal networks cause
variation in costs and benefits for individual plants and fungi and influence the productivity …

The extent to which ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi enable plants to access organic nitrogen
(N) bound in soil organic matter (SOM) and transfer this growth‐limiting nutrient to their plant …