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What Can the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Community Tell Us About Plant Biodiversity Loss?

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The multiple changes of land use in the humid tropics have resulted in a landscape that is very heterogeneous with a high degree of fragmentation and disturbance whose first consequence is the plant biodiversity loss. Current analysis shows that there is a relationship between the organisms in the soil and the plants which are related in such a way that aboveground changes can have a strong and negative impact on organisms belowground. However, these impacts depend on a multiplicity of factors that need to be identified to understand the responses of these organisms at community level and propose comprehensive strategies for restoration of damaged ecosystems. Our studies have focused on the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) forming a mutualistic association with many plant species, and we have found that their richness and spore number respond to changes in the vegetation cover and the replacement of the original vegetation by cultivated plants or pastures altering, in addition, its composition, although edaphic variables are equally important such as nitrogen concentration, pH, and organic matter.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all members of Soil Ecology Laboratory for field assistance. Funding was provided by Functional groups of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi project in collaboration with the University of Chiapas and Natura, A.C.; PAPIME-UNAM PE208412, PAPIIT-UNAM IN116814, SEMARNAT-CONACYT-2002-c01-0668, GEF Belowground biodiversity project, and CONACYT No. 128150 both in collaboration with Institute of Ecology, A.C.

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  1. Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, México, DF, Mexico

    Javier Álvarez-Sánchez, Irene Sánchez-Gallen, Lilian Hernández & Carla Cruz

  2. Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala, Mexico

    Laura Hernández-Cuevas

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Álvarez-Sánchez, J., Sánchez-Gallen, I., Hernández-Cuevas, L., Hernández, L., Cruz, C. (2016). What Can the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Community Tell Us About Plant Biodiversity Loss?. In: Pagano, M. (eds) Recent Advances on Mycorrhizal Fungi. Fungal Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24355-9_3

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