Growth Traits and the Trade-Offs for Tree Species with Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in a Tropical Rain Forest Edge at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico
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Juan Carlos Peña-Becerril, Javier Álvarez-Sánchez*, Guadalupe Barajas-Guzmán, Ana María Quiroz-Ayala
ABSTRACT
The
effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on seedling growth across the
rain forest-pasture edge has not received much attention. In a tropical
rain forest in eastern Mexico, the seedlings of light demanding (Ficus insipida), nonsecondary light demanding (Lonchocarpus cruentus) and shade tolerant species (Nectandra ambigens, Coccoloba hondurensis)
were grown and transplanted to a forest edge with three inoculation
treatments (AM fungus spores and colonized roots, spores, and no
inoculum). For all species, stem height, stem diameter, total dry
weight, leaf area and net assimilation rate were higher in the pasture.
Stem height, stem diameter and root/shoot were higher for L. cruentus, and leaf area ratio, specific leaf area and net assimilation rate were higher for F. insipida; the lowest values of almost all variables were recorded for N. ambigens. L. cruentus and C. hondurensis
with mycorrhizae had the highest values for root/shoot and net
assimilation rate, respectively. The lowest values of root/shoot and net
assimilation rate were observed for nonlight-demanding species in the
forest. There were clear trade-offs for the pioneer species between
survival and growth, and in underground biomass allocation and
assimilation for nonsecondary light demanding, but there was not for the
shade-tolerant species.
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