Soil carbon:nitrogen ratios explain successional trajectories in the mycorrhizal makeup of south-temperate humid forests.

ABSTRACT: Clarifying the determinants of environmental partitioning between ectomycorrhizal (ECM) and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) associations may inform predictions of the effects of climate change on global vegetation patterns, nutrient cycling, and carbon storage in forest ecosystems. Nothofagus species (southern beeches) are the only widespread ECM trees in the humid temperate forests of the southern hemisphere. Despite long-standing interest in spatial and temporal partitioning of forest environments between Nothofagus and other tree species in South America, New Zealand, and Australia, rarely has this research adopted a mycorrhizal focus. We used two-stage landslide chronosequences to examine the environmental drivers of successional trajectories of the mycorrhizal makeup of south-temperate ra

SUBMITTER: Lusk CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12301647 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature