Excluding arbuscular mycorrhiza lowers variability in soil respiration but slows down recovery from perturbations
Excluding arbuscular mycorrhiza lowers variability in soil respiration but slows down recovery from perturbations
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10.1002/ecs2.3308
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2020-12
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2.7
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S. Veresoglou;Gaowen Yang;Magkdi Mola;Annette Manntschke;Moritz Mating;M. Forstreuter;M. Rillig
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S. Veresoglou;Gaowen Yang;Magkdi Mola;Annette Manntschke;Moritz Mating;M. Forstreuter;M. Rillig
. The role of mutualisms in mediating temporal stability in an ecosystem has been debated exten-sively. Here, we focus on how a ubiquitous mutualism, arbuscular mycorrhiza, in fl uences temporal stability of a key ecosystem process, ecosystem respiration. We discriminated between two forms of temporal stability, temporal variability and resilience, and hypothesized that excluding arbuscular mycorrhiza would be detrimental for both of them. We analyzed a set of 10 parallel manipulation experiments to assess how excluding arbuscular mycorrhiza modulates temporal stability compared to other common experimental factors. We quanti fi ed the temporal variability of ecosystem respiration and the resilience to experimental perturbations (i.e., pulses, stresses, and a disturbance) following manipulations of mycorrhizal state. We observed lower temporal variability in the absence of arbuscular mycorrhiza in discord to our main hypothesis. Manipulating arbuscular mycorrhiza had a stronger impact on temporal variability than the pulse (application of urea), the stress (addition of salt), and a disturbance (experimental defoliation) but weaker than excluding primary producers or comparing across different plant species. Resilience to experimental perturbations declined in non-mycorrhizal microcosms. We present an empirical study on how mutualisms impact temporal stability. Arbuscular mycorrhiza differentially alters temporal variability and resilience, highlighting that generalizing across different forms of temporal stability could be misleading. We propose a of four key mechanisms through which excluding arbuscular mycorrhiza could alter ecosystem stability. These are discussed in detail in the main manuscript. Mycorrhiza cannot establish in the absence of compatible hosts, and thus, the manipulations plants and mycorrhiza were incompatible; we addressed manipulations of primary producers describing whether a plant had been sown in the pots or not in three experiments. We aimed to replicate each of the other factors (i.e., Plant Species having the levels Plantago lanceolata and Prunella vulgaris ; addition of urea having the levels yes or no; addition of NaCl having the levels yes or no; and defoliation having the levels yes or no) in combination to mycorrhiza (i.e., addition of spores of Rhizophagus irregularis or not) in two experi- ments. We limited the pool of factors that we combined with plants into two: addition of urea and addition of NaCl.