454-sequencing reveals stochastic local reassembly and high disturbance tolerance within arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities

Summary, in English

1. Disturbance is assumed to be a major driver of plant community composition, but whether similar processes operate on associated soil microbial communities is less known. Based on the assumed trade-off between disturbance tolerance and competiveness, we hypothesize that a severe disturbance applied within a semi-natural grassland would shift the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal community towards disturbance-tolerant fungi that are rare in undisturbed soils.

• Author: Ylva Lekberg; Tim Krone Schnoor; Rasmus Kjoller; Sean M. Gibbons; Lars H. Hansen; Waleed A. Al-Soud; Soren J. Sorensen; Soren Rosendahl
• Department/s: Biodiversity
• Publishing year: 2012
• Language: English
• Pages: 151-160
• Publication/Series: Journal of Ecology
• Volume: 100
• Issue: 1
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01894.x
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Topic: Ecology
• Keywords: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; community composition; disturbance; large; ribosomal subunit; massively parallel pyrosequencing; plant-soil; (below-ground) interactions; resilience; semi-natural grassland; spatial; processes
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1365-2745