Differential effects of tropical arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal inocula on root colonization and tree seedling growth: Implications for tropical forest diversity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 106-113

  Kiers, Erica T ^a   Lovelock, Catherine E ^a   Krueger, Eileen L ^a,b   Herre, Edward A ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anacardium; Dipteryx; Diversity; Ficus; Licania; Luehea; Mutualism; Mycorrhizae; Ochr oma; Reciprocal inoculation; Specificity; Theobroma; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; ROOT COLONIZATION; SEEDLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 0034009288     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2000.00126.x     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Adelman, M.J. & Morton, J.B. (1986). Infectivity of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: Influence of Host-Soil dilutent combinations on MPN estimates and percent colonization. Soil. Biol. Biochem., 18, 77-83.
2. Alexander, I., Ahmad, N. & See, L.S. (1992). The role of mycorrhizas in the regeneration of some Malaysian forest trees. Phil. Tram. R. Soc. Lond. B, 355, 379-388.
3. Allen, M .P. (1991). The Ecology of Mycorrhizae. Cambridge University Press, New York.
4. Bever, J.D. (1992). Ecological and evolutionary dynamics between plants and their soil communities. PhD Thesis, Duke University.
5. Bever, J.D., Morton, J.B., Antonovics, J. & Schultz, P.A. (1996). Host-dependent sporulation and species diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a mown grassland. J. Ecol., 84, 71-82.
6. Bever, J.D., Westover, K.M. & Antonovics, J. (1997). Incorporating the soil community into plant population dynamics: the utility of the feedback approach. J. Ecol., 85, 561-573.
7. Brundrett, M.C. (1991). Mycorrhizas in natural ecosystems. In: Advances in Ecological Research, Vol. 21 (eds A. MacFayden, M. Begon & A.H. Fitter). Academic Press, London, pp. 171-313.
8. Carling, D.E. & Brown, M.F. (1982). Anatomy and physiology of vesicular-arbuscular and nonmycorrhizal roots. Pytopathology, 72, 1108-1113.
9. Connell, J.H. & Lowman, M.D. (1989). Low-diversity tropical rainforests: some possible mechanisms for their existence. Am. Nat., 134, 89-119.
10. Dalling, J.W., Swaine, M.D. & Garwood, N.C. (1998). Dispersal patterns and seed bank dynamics of pioneer trees in moist tropical forest. Ecology, 79, 564-578.
11. Dahlberg, A. & Stenlid, J. (1994). Size, distribution and biomass of genets in populations of Suillus bovinus (L., Fr) Roussel revealed by somatic incompatibility. New Phytol., 128, 225-234.
12. Fitter, A.H. & Nichols, R. (1988). The use of benomyl to control infection by vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. New Phytol., 110, 201-206.
13. Francis, R. & Read, D.J. (1994). The contributions of mycorrhizal fungi to the determination of plant community structure. Plant Soil, 159, 11-25.
14. Francis, R. & Read, D.J. (1995). Mutualism and antagonism in the mycorrhizal symbiosis, with special reference to effects on plant community structures. Can. J. Bot., 73, S1301-S1309.
15. Grime, J.P., Mackey, M.L., Hillier, S.H. & Read, D.J. (1987). Floristic diversity in a model system using experimental microcosms. Nature, 328, 420-422.
16. Helgason, T., Daniell, T.J., Husband, R., Fitter, A.H. & Young, J.P.W. (1998). Ploughing up the wood-wide web? Nature, 394, 431.
17. Helgason, T., Fitter, A.H. & Young, J.W.P. (1999). Molecular diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonising Hyacinthoides nonscripta (bluebell) in a semi-natural woodland. Mol. Ecol., in press.
18. Howeler, R.H., Sieverding, E. & Saif, S. (1987). Practical aspects of mycorrhizal technology in some tropical crops and pastures. Plant Soil, 100, 249-283.
19. Hughes, L., Dunlop, M., French, K., Leishman, M.R., Rice, B., Rogerson, L. & Westoby, M. (1994). Predicting dispersal spectra; a minimum set of hypotheses based on plant attributes. J. Ecol., 82, 933-950.
20. Janos, D.P. (1980). Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae affect lowland tropical rain forest plant growth. Ecology, 61, 151-162.
21. Janos, D.P. (1996). Mycorrhizas, succession and the rehabilitation of deforested lands in the humid tropics. In: Fungi and Environmental Change (eds J.C. Frankland, N. Magan & G.M. Gadd). Cambridge Press, New York, pp. 129-162.
22. Janzen, D. (1970). Herbivores and the number of tree species in tropical forests. Am. Nat., 104, 501-529.
23. Johnson, N.C., Graham, J.H. & Smith, P.A. (1997). Functioning of mycorrhizas along the mutualism parasitism continuum. New Phytol., 135, 1-12.
24. Johnson, N.C., Tilman, D. & Wedin, D. (1992). Plant and soil controls on mycorrhizal fungal communities. Ecology, 73, 2034-2042.
25. Kitajima, K. (1996). Ecophysiology of tropical tree seedlings. In: Tropical Forest Plant Ecophysiology (eds S.S. Mulkey, R.L. Chazdon & A.P. Smith). Chapman & Hall, New York, pp. 559-596.
26. Kormanik, P.P. & McGraw, A.C. (1982). Quantification of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae in plant roots. In: Methods and Principles of Mycorrhizal Research (ed. N.C. Schenck). The American Phytopathological Society, St Paul, pp. 37-45.
27. Leigh, E.G., Rand, A.S. & Windsor, D.M. (1982). The Ecology of a Tropical Forest. Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
28. Leigh, E.G. & Rowell, T.E. (1995). The evolution of mutualism and other forms of harmony at various levels of biological organization. Ecologie, 26, 131-158.
29. Leigh, E.G. Jr (1999). Tropical Forest Ecology. A View from Barro Colorado Island. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
30. Lovelock, C.E., Kyllo, O.K. & Winter, K. (1996). Growth responses to Vesicular-arbuscular and elevated CO2 in seedlings of a tropical tree Beilschmiedia pendula. Funct. Ecol., 10, 662-667.
31. Malloch, K.A., Pirozynski, K.A. & Raven, P.H. (1980). Ecological and evolutionary significance of mycorrhizal symbioses in vascular plants (A Review). Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 77, 2113-2118.
32. Morton, J.B. & Bentivenga, S.P. (1994). Levels of diversity in endomycorrhizal fungi (Glomales, Zygomycetes) and their role in defining taxonomic and non-taxonomic groups. Plant Soil, 159, 47-59.
33. McGonigle, T.P., Miller, M.H., Evans, D.G., Fairchild, G.L. & Swan, J.A. (1990). A new method which gives an objective measure of colonization of roots by vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. New Phytol., 115, 495-501.
34. Sanford, R.L. & Cuevas, E. (1996). Root growth and rhizosphere interactions in tropical forests. In: Tropical Forest Plant Ecophysiology (eds S.S. Mulkey, R.L. Chazdon & A.P. Smith). Chapman & Hall, New York, pp. 268-300.
35. Tilman, D. & Pacala, S. (1993). The maintenance of species richness in plant communities. In: Species Diversity in Ecological Communities: Historical and Geographical Perspectives (eds R.E. Ricklefs & D. Schluter). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 13-25.
36. van der Heijden, M.G.A., Klironomos, J.N., Ursic, M., Moutoglis, P., Streitwolf-Engel, R., Boiler, T., Wiemken, A. & Sanders, I.R. (1998). Mycorrhizal fungal diversity determines plant biodiversity, ecosystem variabily. Nature, 396, 69-72.
37. Wilkinson, D.M. (1997). The role of seed dispersal in the evolution of mycorrhizae. Oikos, 78, 394-396.
38. Wilson, M.F. (1993). Dispersal mode, seed shadows and colonization patterns. Vegetatio, 107/108, 261-280.
39. Yavitt, J.B., Wieder, R.K. & Wright, J.S. (1993). Soil nutrient dynamics in response to irrigation of a Panamanian tropical moist forest. Biochemistry, 19, 1-25.