The global invader Ligustrum lucidum accumulates beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a novel range

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-021-01114-8" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-021-01114-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-021-01114-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11258-021-01114-8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The global invader Ligustrum lucidum accumulates beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a novel range

Original language description

Alien invasive trees may expand and form monospecific forests by enhancing mutualism with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and/or preventing the establishment of other plants through accumulation of antagonists for native plants. The success of invasive plants also has been associated with their higher phenotypic plasticity. Here we tested these mechanisms by studying the global invasive tree Ligustrum lucidum (hereafter Ligustrum) and the dominant native tree of the Chaquean montane forest (central Argentina) Lithraea molleoides (hereafter Lithraea). We experimentally addressed the effects of soil biota from Ligustrum monospecific forest stands and native montane forests on growth, biomass allocation, and nutrition of alien Ligustrum and native Lithraea. Soil biota was recovered from the rooting zone of adult trees of both species in each forest type. We found that arbuscule colonization in Ligustrum roots was significantly higher in seedlings grown with AMF communities from monospecific invaded forests in comparison to native soils. Mycorrhizal colonization in Lithraea roots did not differed between forest types. Soil biota from the rooting zone of the native Lithraea had no major effects on both itself and the invasive Ligustrum. Instead, AMF from Ligustrum rooting zone almost tripled and doubled P nutrition of the alien and the native compared with non-AMF treatments, respectively. Besides, antagonistic effects of soil biota were not observed. Lithraea root mass fraction (root mass/total plant mass, RMF) was not affected by forest type nor by soil treatment but Ligustrum RMF was affected by both factors. In particular, RMF decreased when seedlings grew with AMF from its rooting zone. The observed positive plant–soil feedback and the phenotypic plasticity of Ligustrum could explain, at least in part, the high invasiveness and the formation of monospecific forest stands by this global invader.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Plant Ecology

ISSN

1385-0237

e-ISSN

1573-5052

Volume of the periodical

222

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

397-408

UT code for WoS article

000612884100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85099948313