Plants with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi efficiently acquire Nitrogen from substrate additions by shaping the decomposer community composition and their net plant carbon demand

Somak Chowdhury, Markus Lange, Ashish A. Malik, Timothy Goodall, Jianbei Huang, Robert I. Griffiths, Gerd Gleixner

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Abstract

We investigated the role of plants and their plant-derived carbon in shaping the microbial community that decomposes substrates and traced the return of nutrients from decomposition back to plant shoots in order to understand the importance of plants for ecosystem element cycling.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)473-490
Number of pages18
JournalPlant and Soil
Volume475
Issue number1
Early online date28 Mar 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2022
Externally publishedYes

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