Soil aggregation and carbon sequestration are tightly correlated with the abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: results from long-term field experiments.

By G. Wilson, C. Rice, Matthias C. Rillig, A. Springer, D. Hartnett. Ecology Letters, 2009

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Subfields: Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Changes in the composition and diversity of AMF communities mediated by management practices in a Mediterranean soil are related with increases in soil biological activity (2014, background): “AMF can protect their hosts from pathogens (Sikes et al., 2009) and enhance the sustainability of ecosystems by improving the soil structure (Caravaca et al., 2006; Wilson et al., 2009).”
• Impact of nitrogen fertilization and soil tillage on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in a Mediterranean agroecosystem (2013, positive): “N-fertilization did not affect GRSP content in our field experiments, consistently with previous reports from forest and arable soils (Wuest et al., 2005; Antibus et al., 2006), but in contrast with other data obtained in crop and grassland soils (Wilson et al., 2009; Wu et al., 2011).”
• Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi reduce decomposition of woody plant litter while increasing soil aggregation (2015, background): “Meanwhile, there are also studies that indicate that soil carbon levels do not necessarily decrease in response to AMF: a long-term field study (17 and 6 years) found carbon stocks to positively correlate with AMF extraradical hyphae (Wilson et al., 2009), and a mesocosm experiment found AMF root co”
• Changing soil characteristics alter the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi communities of Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) in Ethiopia across a management intensity gradient (2015, background): “Moreover, AMF improve soil structure (Wilson et al., 2009) and reduce nutrient losses from the top soil through leaching (van der Heijden, 2010).”
• Direct and indirect effects of climate change on soil microbial and soil microbial‐plant interactions: What lies ahead? (2015, background): “…species gains and losses, understanding how belowground community stability may influence aboveground community response to disturbance is key for predicting how ecosystems may respond to global change (van der Heijden et al. 1998, Rillig et al. 2002, Brussaard et al. 2007, Wilson et al. 2009).”
• Resource limitation is a driver of local adaptation in mycorrhizal symbioses (2010, background): “4B) implies that locally adapted fungi have the potential to sequester more carbon and nutrients in their extraradical hyphae than nonadapted fungi (9, 10).”
• Effects of long-term fertilization on AM fungal community structure and Glomalin-related soil protein in the Loess Plateau of China (2011, background): “Additionally, these soil fungi are well known to promote plant growth (Klironomos 2003) and are involved in a number of important ecosystem processes, including plant productivity, plant diversity and soil structure (Rillig 2004a; Van Der Heijden et al. 1998; Wilson et al. 2009).”
• Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis: plant growth improvement and induction of resistance under stressful conditions (2021, background): “These underground networks, with a length of approximately 25-30mg 1 soil (Mikkelsen et al. 2008; Wilson et al. 2009), also allows the absorption and transfer of micronutrients, like Zn and Cu (Lehmann and Rillig 2015).”
• Effects of grazing on grassland soil carbon: a global review (2013, background): “Thus, increased mycorrhizal production and associated glomalin excretion could be significant in allowing soil under C4 grasses, as opposed to C3 grasses, to store carbon under heavier grazing (Franzluebbers et al., 2000; Treseder & Turner, 2007; Klumpp et al., 2009; Wilson et al., 2009).”
• Mycelium of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increases soil water repellency and is sufficient to maintain water-stable soil aggregates (2010, background): “Evidence for the involvement of these fungi comes from a variety of field observational or experimental studies (Wilson et al., 2009) and controlled pot experiments in which AM fungal presence or isolate identity have been specifically modified (e.”