Mycorrhiza-mediated competition between plants and decomposers drives soil carbon storage

Colin Averill (), Benjamin L. Turner and Adrien C. Finzi
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Colin Averill: Graduate Program in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Texas at Austin
Benjamin L. Turner: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancon, Republic of Panama
Adrien C. Finzi: Boston University

Nature, 2014, vol. 505, issue 7484, 543-545

Abstract: Ecosystem mycorrhizal type is shown to have a stronger effect on soil carbon storage than temperature, precipitation, clay content and primary production; ecosystems dominated by ectomycorrhizal and ericoid mycorrhizal fungi contain 70% more soil carbon per unit nitrogen than do ecosystems dominated by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

Date: 2014
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