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It has been predicted that land use change will pose the main threat to biodiversity worldwide (Sala et al. 2000). A recent meta-analysis shows that, at local scale, conversion and degradation of habitats promote on average a global decline of 8.1 % of species richness and 10.1 % of abundance (Newbold et al. 2015). These human-mediated changes in biodiversity strongly affect ecosystem stability (Hautier et al. 2015). Given the importance of biodiversity on ecosystem functions and services, studies on the effects of land use on species assemblages are highly relevant in current global context.
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This work was supported by Secyt (UNC) and Agencia Córdoba Ciencia. We thank CONICET and the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), both of which supported the facilities used in this investigation.
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Longo, S., Cofré, N., Soteras, F., Grilli, G., Lugo, M., Urcelay, C. (2016). Taxonomic and Functional Response of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi to Land Use Change in Central Argentina. In: Pagano, M. (eds) Recent Advances on Mycorrhizal Fungi. Fungal Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24355-9_7
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