Data of the study Host age and surrounding vegetation affect the community and colonisation rates of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a temperate grassland
| Main Authors: | Šmilauer Petr, Košnar Jiří, Kotilínek Milan, Pecháčková Sylvie, Šmilauerová Marie |
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| Format: | info dataset Journal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2021
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/4870494 |
Daftar Isi:
- This dataset supplements our paper published in New Phytologist, in which we ask following questions: What effects does the ontogenetic stage of host plants have and do these effects differ between plant functional groups? Are the AMF communities modified by the properties of surrounding vegetation, such as the proportion of different functional groups or non-mycorrhizal plants? We addressed these questions in a temperate grassland and studied AMF communities using next-generation sequencing and light microscopy, evaluating their composition, taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity, functional traits, and root colonisation levels. We found important differences of AMF communities and their diversity between seedlings and adults, larger than the differences among host species or between functional groups. The proportion of non-mycorrhizal plants in the surrounding affected AMF community composition and increased its richness. Our results highlight the need for further investigating the existence of a common mycelial networks. The decision to use seedlings for experimental work can affect the results more than the chosen host species.
- The first sheet, called Metadata, describes the contents of the other sheets.