| water transfer via ectomycorrhizal fungal hyphae to conifer seedlings. | little is known about water transfer via mycorrhizal hyphae to plants, despite its potential importance in seedling establishment and plant community development, especially in arid environments. therefore, this process was investigated in the study reported in this paper in laboratory-based tripartite mesocosms containing the shrub arctostaphylos viscida (manzanita) and young seedlings of sugar pine (pinus lambertiana) and douglas-fir (pseudotsuga menziesii). the objectives were to determine wh ... | 2007 | 17333298 |
| dispersal by rodent caching increases seed survival in multiple ways in canopy-fire ecosystems. | seed-caching rodents have long been seen as important actors in dispersal ecology. here, we focus on the interactions with plants in a fire-disturbance community, specifically arctostaphylos species (ericaceae) in california chaparral. although mutualistic relationships between caching rodents and plants are well studied, little is known how this type of relationship functions in a disturbance-driven system, and more specifically to systems shaped by fire disturbance. by burying seeds in the soi ... | 2016 | 27386076 |