Large contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to soil carbon pools in tropical forest soils

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Mycorrhizal fungi mediation of terrestrial ecosystem responses to global change: mini-review (2014, background): “In many ecosystems, mycorrhizal fungi are drivers of carbon (C) and nutrient cycling and sequestration (Rillig et al., 2001; Hobbie and Hobbie, 2006; Heinemeyer et al., 2007; Hobbie and Hobbie, 2008; Talbot et al., 2008; Courty et al., 2010; Talbot and Treseder, 2011; Cairney, 2012; Cheng et al.,…”
Relationships among fires, fungi, and soil dynamics in Alaskan Boreal Forests (2004, background): “Ectomycorrhizal and ericoid fungi contribute to mineralization of organic material, but AM fungi augment soil carbon storage by producing glomalin, a recalcitrant glycoprotein (Wright et al. 1996, Rillig et al. 2001).”
Plant and mycorrhizal regulation of rhizodeposition. (2004, background): “AM fungi can secrete large amounts of the glycoprotein, glomalin, into the soil environment (Wright & Upadhyaya, 1998; Wright, 2000; Rillig et al., 2002, 2003), which may represent a recalcitrant pool of C in some soils (see Rillig et al., 2001).”
Arbuscular mycorrhizae and terrestrial ecosystem processes (2004, background): “At least some of the GRSP is in the slow soil C pool (Rillig et al. 2001, 2003).”
Nutrient Dynamics (2004, background): “Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have been shown to produce in abundance a glycoprotein recalcitrant to decomposition that has been well correlated to soil aggregate stability (Rillig et al., 2001).”