Effects of mycorrhizal types on herbaceous species richness in forest ecosystem

doi:10.13287/j.1001-9332.202404.007

Abstract

Abstract: Species richness plays an important role in ecosystem stability and health. Mycorrhizal type is an important factor affecting ecological processes. How mycorrhizal types affect understory herb species richness and their responses to environmental changes remain largely unknown. We investigated the effects of mycorrhizal types on species richness and their responses to environmental change in understory herbaceous communities based on data of three mycorrhizal types of dominated trees (including 1604 arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) trees, 4654 ectomycorrhiza (ECM) trees, and 5568 AM+ECM trees) and environmental factors in America. The results showed significant differences in species richness of herbaceous plant communities among different mycorrhizal types. Forests with higher dominance of AM plants tended to have higher herbaceous plant richness, supporting the mycorrhizal mediation hypothesis. The impacts of environmental factors (latitude, temperature, precipitation, nitrogen deposition, and soil characteristics) on species richness of herbaceous plant communities depended on mycorrhizal type of forests. The species richness of understory herbs in AM, ECM, and AM+ECM forests was mostly affected by nitrogen deposition, temperature, and soil pH, with the relative importance of 42.3%, 41.1% and 48.7%, respectively. Mycorrhizal types of dominant trees played a vital role in regulating the species richness of understory herbs and influenced their responses to environmental changes.

Key words: mycorrhizal type, species richness, understory herbaceous community, environmental factor

GAO Xushuo, WANG Zhen, SHI Zhaoyong. Effects of mycorrhizal types on herbaceous species richness in forest ecosystem[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2023, 35(5): 1251-1259.

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