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Phosphorus amendment alters soil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal functional guild compositions in a subtropical forest

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Abstract

Purpose

Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) amendments considerably influence fungal diversity and community composition in various ecosystems. Nevertheless, how N and P additions would change arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal community and functional guilds in forest soil remains largely unclear.

Materials and methods

A 5-year N and P addition experiment was conducted in a subtropical forest of southeastern China. Soil AM fungal communities were detected by the high throughput sequencing of 18S rRNA gene-fragments. We investigated the six-seasonal responses of AM fungal diversity, community assembly pattern and functional guild composition to N and/or P amendments.

Results and discussion

The AM fungal Shannon index changed from a positive (3–4 years) to a nonsignificant (4–5 years) effect under P and NP additions as the duration of fertilization increased. P addition, but not N addition, changed the AM fungal community assembly pattern from stochastic- to deterministic-dominant processes. In contrast, P and NP additions significantly influenced AM fungal functional guild components, and the relative abundances of ancestral and edaphophilic guilds increased with increasing years of fertilization. Additionally, the AM fungal guild structure was significantly affected by soil P-related parameters.

Conclusions

Our results emphasize the substantial impacts of P amendment on soil AM community assembly pattern and functional guild composition. This study contributes to a better understanding of the temporal dynamics and potential ecological functioning of AM fungi under global environmental changes.

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The datasets analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Acknowledgements

We appreciate Mr. Zai-Gen Jiang for fertilization and field management. We are grateful to the Zhejiang Qianjiangyuan Forest Biodiversity National Observation and Research Station for experiment permission and sample collection.

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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31971447, 41930756) and the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (2022J02025).

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Subtropical Mountain Ecology of the Ministry of Science and Technology and Fujian Province, Fujian Normal University, 350007, Fuzhou, China

    Quan-Cheng Wang, Shanshan Liu, Ge Song, Chunjian Duan, Lin Xie, Yongxin Lin, Hang-Wei Hu, Ji-Zheng He & Yong Zheng

  2. School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China

    Quan-Cheng Wang, Sheng-Sheng Jin, Shanshan Liu, Ge Song, Chunjian Duan, Lin Xie, Yongxin Lin, Hang-Wei Hu, Ji-Zheng He & Yong Zheng

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  4. Institute of Dendrology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kórnik, 62-035, Poland

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Wang, QC., Jin, SS., Liu, S. et al. Phosphorus amendment alters soil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal functional guild compositions in a subtropical forest. J Soils Sediments 23, 2700–2711 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-023-03510-1

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