Roots and Associated Fungi Drive Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Boreal Forest

By K. Clemmensen, A. Bahr, Otso Ovaskainen, A. Dahlberg, A. Ekblad, H. Wallander, J. Stenlid, R. Finlay, David A. Wardle, Björn D. Lindahl. Science, 2013

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The legacy effect of cover crops on soil fungal populations in a cereal rotation (2016, background): “Several recent metabarcoding studies have defined functional or morphological grouping in the interpretation of their data (Clemmensen et al., 2013; Tedersoo et al., 2014) and there are attempts to broaden and standardise this approach (Nguyen et al., 2015).”
Tamm Review: On the nature of the nitrogen limitation to plant growth in Fennoscandian boreal forests (2017, methodology): “Recent molecular studies have shown that saprotrophic fungi dominate in the litter in the S-horizon, which seems to lack ECM fungi (Lindahl et al., 2007; Clemmensen et al., 2013).”
Climate variation effects on fungal fruiting (2014, background): “In the future, molecular approaches are likely to allow large-scale direct detection of fungal communities in soils (e.g. Clemmensen et al., 2013).”
Fire severity influences the response of soil microbes to a boreal forest fire (2016, background): “On the other hand, mycorrhizal fungi contribute to long-term C accumulation in boreal forest soils by facilitating the transfer of atmospheric C to soil and producing C compounds with long residence times in soil (Clemmensen et al 2013).”
Do arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi stabilize litter‐derived carbon in soil? (2016, background): “Fine roots and mycorrhizal fungi often represent the largest input of carbon (C) into soils (Kramer et al. 2010; Clemmensen et al. 2013), and their fate is therefore of primary relevance to the soil C balance.”
Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change (2019, positive): “Plants release ~50% of fixed carbon into the soil, which is available for microbial growth 158–160 .”
Forest microbiome: diversity, complexity and dynamics. (2016, background): “Soil clearly represents the quantitatively most important habitat for soil microbes (Table 1), with their activity being fuelled by the decomposition of organic matter and photosynthetically derived C entering the soil through the mycelia of mycorrhizal fungi (Clemmensen et al. 2013).”
Effects of straw amendment and moisture on microbial communities in Chinese fluvo-aquic soil (2014, methodology): “18S rRNA genes are known to be too conserved to provide good separation of fungal taxa, and fungal-specific taxa should use the primers of ITS region of rRNA genes (e.g., Blaalid et al. 2012; Xu et al. 2012; Clemmensen et al. 2013).”
Harnessing Soil Microbes to Improve Plant Phosphate Efficiency in Cropping Systems (2019, positive): “These mycobionts can substantially improve the ability of trees to acquire water and nutrients [91] and actively participate in nutrient cycling and carbon sequestration [96,97].”
Initial melanin and nitrogen concentrations control the decomposition of ectomycorrhizal fungal litter (2014, background): “Despite this, fungal litter can be responsible for considerable amounts of C sequestered in soils (Clemmensen et al., 2013).”
The Ecology of Soil Carbon: Pools, Vulnerabilities, and Biotic and Abiotic Controls (2017, background): “Plant carbon allocation to mycorrhizal symbionts can be large, especially in nutrient-poor or boreal ecosystems (Clemmensen et al. 2013), and turnover of the mycorrhizal external mycelium can be the dominant pathway by which carbon enters the SOM pool (Godbold et al. 2006).”