Introduction and persistance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal inoculum

丛枝菌根真菌(AMF)是一种重要的根部共生体，给植物和生态系统带来了许多好处。虽然这些真菌是由人类传播的，但人们对它们在新生态系统中建立和维持的能力知之甚少。这是一个问题，因为它们不仅由于人类运动和土地利用而移动，而且还被用作受管理的和受干扰的生态系统的生物肥料。为了了解这种运动的后果，我们需要更多地了解AMF的基本生物学，包括它们对干扰的反应，它们相互竞争的相互作用和入侵不同系统的能力。我建议根据AMF生活史策略的不同，即它们允许它们殖民、生长和传播的特征，对AMF的入侵成功进行分类。此外，被入侵地点的特征也将被用来预测入侵成功。这些知识可以用于增强当前的农业/恢复实践，也可以用于管理AMF意外引入的景观。

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are important root symbionts that confer many benefits to plants and ecosystems.  Although these fungi are spread by humans, little is known about their ability to establish and persist in novel ecosystems.  This is a problem because not only do they move as a consequence of human movement and land use, but they are also being applied to managed nd disturbed ecosystems as 'biofertilizer'.  To understand the consequences of this movement, we need to learn more about the basic biology of AMF, including their response to disturbance, their competitive interactions and their ability to invade different systems.  I propose to classify the invasion success of AMF based on differences in their life history strategies, that is, their traits that allow them to colonize, grow and spread.  In addition, the characteristics of the site to be invaded will also be used to predict invasion success.  This knowledge can be used to augment current agricultural/restoration practices, and also to manage landscapes where AMF have been introduced accidentally.