Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: More Diverse than Meets the Eye, and the Ecological Tale of Why

By James D. Bever, P. Schultz, Anne Pringle, J. Morton. 2001

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Impact of tillage system on arbuscular mycorrhiza fungal communities in the soil under Mediterranean conditions (2012, background): “AMF propagules, mycelium, colonised root fragments and spores, and spore densities are known to exhibit a strong spatial structuring at small scales (Bever et al., 2001; Wolfe et al., 2007).”
Impact of soil warming and shading on colonization and community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in roots of a native grassland community (2004, positive): “Our results are of particular interest as there is growing awareness of niche separation in AM fungal communities (Bever et al., 2001), and of the possibility of AM host specificity (van der Heijden et al., 1998; Helgason et al., 2002).”
Diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the roots of perennial plants and their effect on plant performance (2004, background): “However, probably the highest known AM fungal richness at a single site, 37 taxa in an old-field, was detected by extensive trap-culturing (Bever et al. 2001).”
IMPACTS OF EARLY- AND LATE-SERAL MYCORRHIZAE DURING RESTORATION IN SEASONAL TROPICAL FOREST, MEXICO (2003, background): “Reciprocal inoculation of host plant species with their associated and neighboring inoculum showed host-specific and inoculum-specific growth responses in tropical tree seedlings (Kiers et al. 2000) as well as temperate old-field plants (Bever et al. 2001).”
Physical and biological feedbacks of deforestation (2012, background): “…vegetation is often dependent on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (i.e., type of mycorrhiza in which the fungus penetrates the cortical cells of the roots of a vascular plant) for increasing nutrient availability and enhancing conditions favorable to the growth of vegetation [Bever et al., 2001].”
The Ecology of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (2013, background): “Several species of a number of genera of AM fungi may colonize a host root simultaneously (Bever et al., 2001).”
Contrasting effects of cover crops on ‘hot spot’ arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in organic tomato (2014, background): “To our knowledge, so far, a similar high AMF species richness has never been reported from a single site and rarely from a well-defined region covering several to multiple field sites (Bever et al. 2001; Tchabi et al. 2008).”
Occurrence and distribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species in three types of grassland community of the Tibetan Plateau (2009, background): “Indeed, it has been suggested that local environmental conditions may select the suite AM fungal species that are available for colonization (Klironomos et al. 2001; Bever et al. 2002 ).”
The mosaic of habitats in the high-altitude Brazilian rupestrian fields is a hotspot for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (2012, background): “Notably, when the AMF diversity in agroecosystems was evaluated only with field samples, Bever et al. (2001) identified 11 AMF species; after five years of sampling and attempts to isolate AMF in a trap cultures, the number of AMF species increased to 37.”
Resource stoichiometry elucidates the structure and function of arbuscular mycorrhizas across scales. (2010, background): “It has often been assumed that Glomeromycota is depauperate of species, but this is probably not the case, as it appears that the vast majority of AM fungal species are undescribed (Bever et al., 2001; Rosendahl, 2008; Öpik et al., 2009).”