Mycorrhizal type and tree diversity affect foliar elemental pools and stoichiometry
Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet
Authors
We investigated the impact of tree species richness and mycorrhizal types, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AM) and ectomycorrhizal fungi (EM), on above- and belowground carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) dynamics.
Soil and soil microbial biomass elemental dynamics showed weak responses to tree species richness and none to mycorrhizal type. However, foliar elemental concentrations, stoichiometry, and pools were significantly affected by both treatments. Tree species richness increased foliar C and P pools but not N pools. Additive partitioning analyses showed that net biodiversity effects of foliar C, N, P pools in EM tree communities were driven by selection effects, but in mixtures of both mycorrhizal types by complementarity effects. Furthermore, increased tree species richness reduced soil nitrate availability, over 2 yr.
Our results indicate that positive effects of tree diversity on aboveground nutrient storage are mediated by complementary mycorrhizal strategies and highlight the importance of using mixtures composed of tree species with different types of mycorrhizae to achieve more multifunctional afforestation.
Originalsprache | Englisch |
---|---|
Zeitschrift | New Phytologist |
Jahrgang | 242 |
Ausgabenummer | 4 |
Seiten (von - bis) | 1614-1629 |
Anzahl der Seiten | 16 |
ISSN | 0028-646X |
DOIs | |
Publikationsstatus | Erschienen - 05.2024 |
Bibliographische Notiz
Funding Information:
We thank Julius Quosh for collecting the dendrometric data and Romy Zeiss, Alla Kavtea and Tom K\u00FCnne for collecting the time series data on plant\u2010available nutrients (IEMs). Further, we thank Sergio Asensio, Beatriz Gozalo, and Victoria Ochoa for the chemical analysis of IEMs and Ines Hilke for the measurements of C, N, and P at the MPI\u2010BGC Jena. We also appreciate the kind assistance of Jacqueline Rose in determination of microbial C, N, and P as well as valuable expertise of Thomas Reitz in colorimetric determination of phosphate. We acknowledge funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, FZT118; and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Ei 862/29\u20101). FTM acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC Grant agreement 647038 (BIODESERT)), Generalitat Valenciana (CIDEGENT/2018/041) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Comments by five anonymous reviewers and the Editor Ian Dickie helped us to improve this manuscript. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Authors. New Phytologist © 2024 New Phytologist Foundation.
- Ökosystemforschung - biodiversity effects, mycorrhizal fungi, MyDiv, nutrient dynamics, plant-soil interaction, tree species richness