Disturbing impact of outdoor cattle husbandry on community of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in upland pasture soil

0328082 - BC 2010 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Jirout, Jiří - Tříska, Jan - Růžičková, Kamila - Elhottová, Dana
Disturbing impact of outdoor cattle husbandry on community of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in upland pasture soil.
Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis. Roč. 40, 1-6 (2009), s. 736-745. ISSN 0010-3624. E-ISSN 1532-2416
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LC06066; GA AV ČR IAA600660605
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60660521; CEZ:AV0Z60870520
Keywords : arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi * cattle husbandry * pasture soil
Subject RIV: EH - Ecology, Behaviour
Impact factor: 0.397, year: 2009

The aim of the pilot study was to describe the impact of outdoor cattle husbandry on the communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on the overwintering upland pasture (South Bohemia, Czech Republic). We selected three sites with severe, moderate, and light (control) impact intensity. Roots of plant species with a plant cover area >5% were collected at each site. The ratio of nonmycorrhizal plants species decreased with the decreasing impact of cattle. The highest mycorrhizal colonization was found at the control site on a level of the screened plant community (78.57% of root length) as well as on a species level (97.78% of root length of Plantago major L.). At the severely impacted site, 31.67% and 35.56% of root colonization was found on community and species level (Plantago major L.), respectively. Similar results were found also in the length of extraradical mycelium and arbuscular numbers.
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