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- Title
Ozone and Nitrogen Effects on Juvenile Subalpine Plants: Complex Interactions with Species and Colonization by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF).
- Authors
Bassin, Seraina; Blanke, V.; Volk, M.; Fuhrer, J.
- Abstract
Increasing concentrations of tropospheric ozone and reactive nitrogen threaten the composition and function of semi-natural plant communities. Using a free-air fumigation system, we investigated the effects of elevated ozone (1.73 × ambient concentration; +O) and nitrogen (+50 k g N ha year; +N) deposition on growth of juveniles of three subalpine grassland species and their colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in situ. In a subsample, the extra-radical mycelium was regularly disrupted to determine the effect of AMF on the plants' pollutant sensitivity. The plants reacted sensitively to the pollutants: +N increased shoot growth in Festuca rubra, while +O decreased root growth in Trifolium alpinum and F. rubra. Colonization with AMF was stimulated by N in Leontodon helveticus and was strongly reduced by O in F. rubra and L. helveticus, probably due to lower carbon allocation belowground. Conversely, AMF did not protect plants from O neither did they increase the species' responsiveness to N. Our results indicate that irrespective of AMF colonization, juvenile plants are highly sensitive to O stress, probably since their growth is primarily limited by carbon assimilation.
- Subjects
VESICULAR-arbuscular mycorrhizas; MOUNTAIN plants; ENDOMYCORRHIZAS; POLLUTANTS; RED fescue; BIODIVERSITY; MYCORRHIZAL fungi
- Publication
Water, Air & Soil Pollution, 2017, Vol 228, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0049-6979
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11270-016-3214-3