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Arbuscular Mycorrhizas in Different Successional Stages in Some Brazilian Ecosystems

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are important soil organisms that assist the tropical plant species for establishment, survival, and growth. The plant response to AMF displays great variations among plant species belonging to different ecological groups of succession. Seedlings of the native heliophilous herbaceous display low growth response when inoculated with AMF in fertile soil, but the intensity of the AMF root colonization is very high, influencing differentially the survival, growth, and flowering. Seedlings of the woody species of the early stages of succession are highly responsive to inoculation and show a higher degree of AMF root colonization than seedlings of late stages of succession. In the same way, field soils from early-successional stages such as heliophilous herbaceous vegetation and young secondary forest display fine roots with higher AMF colonization, higher spore abundance, and higher inoculum potential than soils from late stages of succession. As a consequence, the AMF association emerges as an important tool among plant species of the early-successional phases toward initial tropical forest formation and structuring. In later stages of succession, the woody species display reduced use of the AMF and consequently soils of the mature forests present low AMF inoculum potential. In this study, the possible causes for decreasing the AMF association and soil inoculum potential during tropical succession and the importance of the AMF for plants involved in secondary forest formation are discussed.

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Zangaro, W., Rondina, A.B.L. (2016). Arbuscular Mycorrhizas in Different Successional Stages in Some Brazilian Ecosystems. In: Pagano, M. (eds) Recent Advances on Mycorrhizal Fungi. Fungal Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24355-9_5

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