Ectomycorrhizal fungi productivity

Ohta, A. (1998). Fruit-body production of two ectomycorrhizal fungi in the genus Hebeloma in pure culture. Mycoscience 39,15-19. 

Table 5.1. Field-based estimates of carbon allocation to ectomycorrhizal fungi as a percentage of net primary production...

Table 5.2. Estimates of carbon or biomass allocation to ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) as a proportion of total net primary production in laboratory studies. The proportion of total NPP directed below-ground is also given. NM = non-mycorrhizal... 

Fig. 5.2. Allocation to ectomycorrhizal fungi correlates with belowground allocation in culture studies. Values are given as a percentage of net primary production (NPP), and are listed in Table 5.2. A linear regression gives an equation of %NPPfungi = 0.43 x %NPPbeiow-ground—12.7%, r = 0.52, /><0.001. One study (Reid et al, 1983) was excluded since the methodology (pulse-chase) was very different than in any other study.

Nilsson, L. O. Wallander, H. (2003). Production of external mycelium by ectomycorrhizal fungi in a Norway spruce forest was reduced in response to nitrogen fertilization. New Phytologist, 158, 409-16. 

Wallander, H., Nilsson, L. O., Hagerberg, D. Baath, E. (2001). Estimation of the biomass and production of external mycelium of ectomycorrhizal fungi in the field. New Phytologist, 151, 751-60. 

Rupp, L.A., DeVries, H.E., Mudge, K.W., 1989a. Effect of aminocyclopropane carboxylic acid and aminoethox-ivinylglycine on ethylene production by ectomycorrhizal fungi. Can. J. Bot. 67, 483-485. 

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