Does successful forest regeneration require the nursing of seedlings by nurse trees through mycorrhizal interconnections?
Abstract
Mycorrhizal mycelia can connect trees and seedlings. Carbon and nutrients can be transported through the mycelium. Trees may potentially nourish their offspring via mycelial interconnections. Severing of mycelial connections improves seedling growth in boreal forests. Conflicting evidence calls for more experimental work in the field.
- Publication:
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Forest Ecology and Management
- Pub Date:
- July 2022
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2022ForEM.51620252H
- Keywords:
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- Boreal forests;
- Competition;
- Ectomycorrhiza;
- Facilitation;
- Mycelial network;
- Silviculture