The fungal symbionts forming ectomycorrhizas, as well as their associated bacteria, benefit
forest trees in a number of ways although the most important is enhancing soil nutrient …

Belowground communities usually support a much greater diversity of organisms than do
corresponding aboveground ones, and while the factors that regulate their diversity are far …

Coevolution—reciprocal evolutionary change in interacting species driven by natural
selection—is one of the most important ecological and genetic processes organizing the …

Stochastic processes can play an important role in microbial community assembly. Dispersal
limitation is one process that can increase stochasticity and obscure relationships between …

Numbers of species above ground and below ground may be correlated when taxa in both
realms respond similarly to the same or correlated environmental driving variables …

There are increasing calls to provide greenspace in urban areas, yet the ecological quality,
as well as quantity, of greenspace is important. Short mown grassland designed for …

Little is known about the response of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities to
ecosystem development. We use a long‐term soil chronosequence that includes ecosystem …

We have investigated colonization strategies by comparing the abundance and frequency of
ectomycorrhizal fungal species on roots in a mature Pinus muricata forest with those present …

Mycorrhizae, the symbiotic associations of plant roots and fungal hyphae, are classic
examples of mutualisms. In these ecologically important associations, the fungi derive …

Niche differentiation for different soil substrates has been proposed as a mechanism
contributing to ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity. This hypothesis has been largely untestable …