Nitrogen addition alters soil fungal communities, but root fungal communities are resistant to change.

ABSTRACT: Plants are colonized by numerous microorganisms serving important symbiotic functions that are vital to plant growth and success. Understanding and harnessing these interactions will be useful in both managed and natural ecosystems faced with global change, but it is still unclear how variation in environmental conditions and soils influence the trajectory of these interactions. In this study, we examine how nitrogen addition alters plant-fungal interactions within two species of Populus - Populus deltoides and P. trichocarpa. In this experiment, we manipulated plant host, starting soil (native vs. away for each tree species), and nitrogen addition in a fully factorial replicated design. After ~10 weeks of growth, we destructively harvested the plants and charac

SUBMITTER: Carrell AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9905728 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature