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Research article2011Peer reviewed

Alien plants associate with widespread generalist arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal taxa: evidence from a continental-scale study using massively parallel 454 sequencing

Moora, Mari; Berger, Silje; Davison, John; Öpik, Maarja; Bommarco, Riccardo; Bruelheide, Helge; Kühn, Ingolf; Kunin, William E.; Metsis, Madis; Rortais, Agnes; Vanatoa, Alo; Vanatoa, Elise; Stout, Jane C.; Truusa, Merilin; Westphal, Catrin; Zobel, Martin; Walther, Gian-Reto

Abstract

Main conclusions AM fungal communities in the native, invasive and experimentally introduced ranges varied in taxonomic composition and richness, but they shared a pool of geographically widespread, non-host-specific taxa that might support the invasion of a generalist alien plant. Our dataset provides the first geographical overview of AM taxon distributions obtained using a single host-plant species.

Keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; biotic invasion; China; Europe; forest ecosystem; fungal diversity; Glomeromycota; host specificity; soil microbial community; Trachycarpus fortunei

Published in

Journal of Biogeography
2011, Volume: 38, number: 7, pages: 1305-1317
Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use

    Publication identifier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02478.x

    Permanent link to this page (URI)

    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/40407