Detection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal spores in the air across different biomes and ecoregions

Fungal Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2014, Pages 26-31

  Egan, Cameron ^a   Li, De Wei ^b   Klironomos, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Aeromycology; Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Dispersal; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; GIGASPORA; GLOMUS; GLOMUS ACAULOSPORA; SCUTELLOSPORA;

EID: 84927168464     PISSN: 17545048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2014.06.004     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Allen M.F. Re-establishment of mycorrhizas on mount St. Helens: migration vectors. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 1987, 88:413-417.
2. Allen M.F., Hipps L.E., Wooldridge G.L. Wind dispersal and subsequent establishment of VA mycorrhizal fungi across a successional arid landscape. Landscape Ecology 1989, 2:165-171.
3. Aylor D.E. A framework for examining inter-regional aerial transport of fungal spores. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 1986, 38:263-288.
4. Gange A.C. Translocation of mycorrhizal fungi by earthworms during early succession. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 1993, 25:1021-1026.
5. Giovannetti M., Azzolini D., Citernesi A.S. Anastomosis formation and nuclear and protoplasmic exchange in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 1999, 65:5571-5575.
6. Harner M.J., Piotrowski J.S., Lekberg Y., Stanford J.A., Rillig M.C. Heterogeneity in mycorrhizal inoculum potential of flood-deposited sediments. Aquatic Sciences 2009, 71:331-337.
7. Kendrick B. The Fifth Kingdom 2001, Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company, Newburyport, MA. third ed.
8. Klironomos J.N., Moutoglis P. Colonization of nonmycorrhizal plants by mycorrhizal neighbours as influenced by the collembolan. Folsomia candida. Biology and Fertility of Soils 1999, 29:277-281.
9. Klironomos J.N., Moutoglis P., Kendrick B., Widden P. A comparison of spatial heterogeneity of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in two maple-forest soils. Canadian Journal of Botany 1993, 71:1472-1480.
10. Kruskal W.H., Wallis A.W. Use of ranks in one-criterion variance analysis. Journal of the American Statistical Association 1952, 47:583-621.
11. Li D.W., Kendrick B. Functional relationships between airborne fungal spores and environmental factors in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, as detected by Canonical correspondence analysis. Grana 1994, 33(3):166-176.
12. Li D.W., Kendrick B. A year-round comparison of fungal spores in indoor and outdoor air. Mycologia 1995, 87(2):190-195.
13. Moora M., Berger S., Davison J., Opik M., Bommarco R., Bruelheide H., Kuhn I., Kunin W.E., Metsis M., Rortais A., Vanotoa A., Vanatoa E., Stout J.C., Truusa M., Westphal C., Zobel M., Walther G.R. Alien plants associated with widespread generalist arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal taxa: evidence from a continental-scale study using massively parallel 454 sequencing. Journal of Biogeography 2011, 38:1305-1317.
14. Oehl F., Sieverding E., Ineichen K., Mader P., Boller T., Wimken A. Impact of land use intensity on the species diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in agroecosystems of central Europe. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2003, 69:2816-2824.
15. Opik M., Moora M., Liira J., Zobel M. Composition of root-colonizing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in different ecosystems around the globe. Journal of Ecology 2006, 94:778-790.
16. Opik M., Moora M., Zobel M., Saks U., Wheatley R., Wright F., Daniell T. High diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a boreal herb-rich coniferous forest. New Phytologist 2008, 179:867-876.
17. Opik M., Vanatoa A., Vanatoa E., Moora M., Davison J., Kalwij J.M., Reir U., Zobel M. The online database MaarjAM reveals global and ecosystemic distribution patterns in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota). New Phytologist 2010, 188:223-241.
18. Opik M., Zobel M., Cantero J.J., Davison J., Facelli J.M., Hiiesalu I., Jairus T., Kalwij J.M., Koorem K., Leal M.E., Liira J., Metsis M., Neshataeva V., Paal J., Phosri C., Polme S., Reier U., Saks U., Schimann H., Thiery O., Vasar M., Moora M. Global sampling of plant roots expands the described molecular diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Mycorrhiza 2013, 23:411-430.
19. Remy W., Taylor T.N., Hass H., Kerp H. Four hundred-million-year-old vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae. PNAS 1994, 91:11841-11843.
20. Schwartz M.W., Hoeksema J.D., Gehring C.A., Johnson N.C., Klironomos J.N., Abbott L.K., Pringle A. The promise and potential consequences of the global transport of mycorrhizal fungal inoculum. Ecology Letters 2006, 9:501-515.
21. Tommerup I.C. Airstream fractionation of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: concentration and enumeration of propagules. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 1982, 44:533-539.
22. Vernes K., Dunn L. Mammal mycophagy and fungal spore dispersal across a steep environmental gradient in eastern Australia. Austral Ecology 2009, 34:69-76.
23. Viljanen-Rollinson S.L.H., Parr E.L., Marroni M.V. Monitoring long-distance spore dispersal by wind - a review. New Zealand Plant Protection 2007, 60:291-296.
24. Wilcoxon F. Individual comparisons by ranking methods. Biometrics Bulletin 1945, 1:80-83.