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Descriptions of the species composition of mycorrhizal communities has up to recent times almost exclusively been made using fruitbody inventories (Vogt et al. 1991). However, recent studies (Dahlberg & Stenlid, 1994) have shown that sporocarp biomass constitutes only a few percent of the total (annual accumulative) biomass of ectomycorrhiza (Taylor and Alexander, 1990; Danielson and Visser, 1989). More importantly, sporocarps only poorly reflect the composition of the mycorrhizal community. Efforts have been made to use morphotyping of mycorrhizal roots in order to better describe ectomycorrhizal communities (ECM), but this has had only limited application and success (Egli et al., 1993). Compared to the advances of plant ecology, our knowledge of the fungal communities, both mycorrhizal and saprophytic, is rudimental.
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Nylund, JE., Dahlberg, A., Högberg, N., Kårén, O., Grip, K., Jonsson, L. (1995). Methods for Studying Species Composition of Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities in Ecological Studies and Environmental Monitoring. In: Stocchi, V., Bonfante, P., Nuti, M. (eds) Biotechnology of Ectomycorrhizae. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1889-1_20
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