Effects of simulated fire on vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae in pinyon-juniper woodland soil |
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Authors: | Carole Coe Klopatek Leonard F. Debano Jeffrey M. Klopatek |
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Affiliation: | (1) Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forestry Sciences Lab., USDA Forest Service, Arizona State University Campus, 85287 Tempe, AZ;(2) Department of Botany and Microbiology, Arizona State University, 85287 Tempe, AZ, USA |
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Abstract: | Effects of fire on vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi were tested using microcosms constructed from soil, litter, and duff collected beneath canopies of pinyon pine, Utah juniper, and in the open space (interspace). Burning was conducted over wet and dry soils. Soil temperatures were monitored continuously throughout the microcosms during burning. Plants grown in soils burned when dry had a lower VAM colonization than soils burned when wet. Juniper soils demonstrated the greatest reduction, over 95%, compared to their respective controls. Plants grown in interspace soils burned when wet were least affected. There was a positive correlation (r2=0.90) between the decrease in VAM colonization and the soil temperature as a result of the fire. Temperature effects, and associated reductions in VAM, were related to amount of litter burned in each microcosm and the moisture content of the soils. |
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Keywords: | disturbance fire pinyon-juniper vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae |
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