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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in tropical rain forest are resilient to slash-and-burn agriculture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2018

David García de León Open the ORCID record for David García de León [Opens in a new window] ,
Lena Neuenkamp ,
Mari Moora ,
Maarja Öpik ,
John Davison ,
Clara Patricia Peña-Venegas ,
Martti Vasar ,
Teele Jairus  and
Martin Zobel
David García de León*
Affiliation:
Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai 40, 51005 Tartu, Estonia
Lena Neuenkamp
Affiliation:
Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai 40, 51005 Tartu, Estonia
Mari Moora
Affiliation:
Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai 40, 51005 Tartu, Estonia
Maarja Öpik
Affiliation:
Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai 40, 51005 Tartu, Estonia
John Davison
Affiliation:
Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai 40, 51005 Tartu, Estonia
Clara Patricia Peña-Venegas
Affiliation:
Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas Sinchi, Calle 20, 5–44, Bogotá, Colombia
Martti Vasar
Affiliation:
Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai 40, 51005 Tartu, Estonia
Teele Jairus
Affiliation:
Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai 40, 51005 Tartu, Estonia
Martin Zobel
Affiliation:
Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai 40, 51005 Tartu, Estonia
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*Corresponding author. Email: david.garciadeleon@ut.ee
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Abstract:

Certain forestry and agricultural practices are known to affect arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal communities, but the effects of deforestation – including slash-and-burn management and other more severe disturbances – in tropical rain forests are poorly understood. We addressed the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on rain-forest AM fungal communities in French Guiana, by comparing mature tropical rain forest, slash-and-burn (5 y old) and clearcut areas (8 y old). A total of 36 soil samples were collected in six plots and sequenced using a high throughput 454-pyrosequencing platform. A total of 32649 sequences from 103 AM fungal virtual taxa (VT) were recorded. Whereas alpha diversity of AM fungi did not decrease due to land-use intensification, with average richness ranging from 17 to 21 taxa per plot, beta diversity (average distance to multivariate centroid) dropped by 28% from 0.46 in rain forest to 0.33 under clearcutting. AM fungal community composition was correlated with land use and soil chemical properties. Clearcut areas were characterized by the more frequent occurrence of specialist AM fungi, compared with mature forest or slash-and-burn areas. Specifically, clearcuts contained the highest proportions of VT that were geographic (21%), habitat (31%), abundance (97%) or host (97%) specialists based on VT metadata contained in the MaarjAM database. This suggests that certain AM fungi with narrow ecological niches have traits that allow them to exploit conditions of severe disturbance. In conclusion, slash-and-burn management appears to allow diverse AM fungal communities to persist, and may favour regeneration of tropical rain forest after abandonment. More severe disturbance in the form of clearcutting resulted in marked changes in AM fungal communities.

Keywords

AM fungal diversityclearcuttingfunctional traitsslash-and-burntropical rain forest
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Research Article
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Journal of Tropical Ecology , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , May 2018 , pp. 186 - 199
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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