Nutrition and mycorrhizae affect interspecific patterns of seedling growth on coarse wood and mineral soil substrates
Nutrition and mycorrhizae affect interspecific patterns of seedling growth on coarse wood and mineral soil substrates
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营养和菌根影响粗木和矿质土壤基质上幼苗生长的种间模式
DOI:
10.1002/ecs2.2350
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发表时间:
2018
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2.7
通讯作者:
M. Walters
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作者:
J. L. Willis;M. Walters
Smaller‐seeded tree species often require mineral soil and coarse woody debris (CWD) to establish. Limited data suggest that species‐based variation in tree seedling–CWD relations exists; however, the generalizability of this pattern and its mechanistic basis remain unknown. We investigated interspecific substrate–seedling relations and the potential that differences in mycorrhizal status and substrate nutrition underlie these patterns with a potted plant experiment. Eight temperate tree species were grown in a lath shade house on six species of CWD and mineral soil that had either been sterilized with gamma irradiation or left untreated to separate the effects of mycorrhizae from substrate nutrition. We assessed the impact of substrate identity on height growth and investigated possible mechanisms via relating growth to substrate inorganic N concentration, seedling foliar N (%), and mycorrhizal colonization. Seedling height varied across substrates consistently among species (i.e., substrate effects were strong, but seedling species x substrate interactions were weak). Seedlings were generally tallest on mineral soil followed byBetula papyriferaandThuja occidentalisCWD, and shortest onB. alleghaniensisorAcer saccharumCWD. Sterilization main effects on height were not significant; however, the response of species to sterilization varied, asAcer rubrumandT. occidentalisseedlings were significantly shorter on sterilized substrate. For all seedling species, growth correlated positively with substrate [N] and foliar N. Among the four species examined for mycorrhizae, root colonization density was highest on mineral soil and lowest onA.saccharumandB. alleghaniensisCWD). For these species, mean colonization density was more strongly associated with mean seedling height than substrate inorganic [N]. Beneficial mycorrhizal effects were suggested by positive height–mycorrhizal root density relationships forB. alleghaniensis,A. rubrum, andT. occidentalis. Collectively, for the group of northern hardwood tree species examined in this study, these results demonstrate that in a controlled environment, most species grow best on mineral soil,B. alleghaniensis and Picea glaucaattained maximum growth on CWD, species‐specific growth responses occur on CWD, and that substrate nutrient availability and mycorrhizal fungi contribute to the variation observed in seedling growth response across substrates.
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2004
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作者:
A. Mori;Eri Mizumachi;T. Osono;Yusuke Doi
通讯作者:
Yusuke Doi