Mycorrhizal mycelium as a global carbon pool

HJ Hawkins, RIM Cargill, ME Van Nuland, SC Hagen… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
For more than 400 million years, mycorrhizal fungi and plants have formed partnerships that
are crucial to the emergence and functioning of global ecosystems. The importance of these …

Clarifying the evidence for microbial‐and plant‐derived soil organic matter, and the path toward a more quantitative understanding

ED Whalen, AS Grandy, NW Sokol… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting and mitigating changes in soil carbon (C) stocks under global change requires a
coherent understanding of the factors regulating soil organic matter (SOM) formation and …

Deconstructing the microbial necromass continuum to inform soil carbon sequestration

KM Buckeridge, C Creamer, J Whitaker - Functional Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial necromass is a large, dynamic and persistent component of soil organic carbon,
the dominant terrestrial carbon pool. Quantification of necromass carbon stocks and its …

Mycorrhizal fungi as mediators of soil organic matter dynamics

SD Frey - Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Inhabiting the interface between plant roots and soil, mycorrhizal fungi play a unique but
underappreciated role in soil organic matter (SOM) dynamics. Their hyphae provide an …

Mycorrhizal types differ in ecophysiology and alter plant nutrition and soil processes

L Tedersoo, M Bahram - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mycorrhizal fungi benefit plants by improved mineral nutrition and protection against stress,
yet information about fundamental differences among mycorrhizal types in fungi and trees …

Hyphae move matter and microbes to mineral microsites: Integrating the hyphosphere into conceptual models of soil organic matter stabilization

CR See, AB Keller, SE Hobbie… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Associations between soil minerals and microbially derived organic matter (often referred to
as mineral‐associated organic matter or MAOM) form a large pool of slowly cycling carbon …

Global patterns of soil gross immobilization of ammonium and nitrate in terrestrial ecosystems

AS Elrys, Z Chen, J Wang, Y Uwiragiye… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial nitrogen (N) immobilization, which typically results in soil N retention but based on
the balance of gross N immobilization over gross N production, affects the fate of the …

Peatland warming strongly increases fine-root growth

A Malhotra, DJ Brice, J Childs… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Belowground climate change responses remain a key unknown in the Earth system. Plant
fine-root response is especially important to understand because fine roots respond quickly …

How does forest management affect fungal diversity and community composition? Current knowledge and future perspectives for the conservation of forest fungi

A Tomao, JA Bonet, C Castano, S de-Miguel - Forest Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The influence of forest management on fungal diversity and community composition has
been the subject of a wide number of studies over the last two decades. However, the …

The functional role of ericoid mycorrhizal plants and fungi on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in forests

EB Ward, MC Duguid, SE Kuebbing… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ericoid mycorrhizal (ErM) shrubs commonly occur in forest understories and could therefore
alter arbuscular (AM) and/or ectomycorrhizal (EcM) tree effects on soil carbon and nitrogen …