Aims We tested whether a nurse-plant effect depends on target-seedling tolerance to soil acidity and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in an acid soil. Methods A mesocosm experiment was used to ...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are crucial to plants and vice versa, but little is known about the factors linking the community structure of the two groups. We investigated the association ...

The mycorrhizae on seedlings of Pinus mugo Turra were superseded by other types after seedlings were transplanted from a nursery to a subalpine pine soil. The mycorrhizae formed by a single symbiont, ...