Early successional ectomycorrhizal fungi are more likely to naturalize outside their native range than other ectomycorrhizal fungi

Abstract

Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EcMF) are the key symbion ts of numerouswoody plants in many ecosystems worldwide (Smith & Read,2008; Tedersoo, 2017). They positively affect host plant nutrientuptake (Smith & Read, 2008) and take part in essential ecosystemprocesses such as carbon sequestration, nutrient cycling anddecomposition of organic matter (Read & Perez-Moreno, 2003;Clemmensen et al., 2014; Shah et al., 2016).

The majority ofectomycorrhizal (EcM) plants fully depend on the mycorrhizalsymbionts and cannot complete their life cycle without these rootassociations (Smith & Read, 2008)

Keywords

• alien species
• biogeography
• ectomycorrhiza
• fungi
• plant invasions