James D. Bever

TL;DR: Evidence is presented that restoration quality can be improved by reintroducing key organisms from the native plant microbiome, including root symbionts called arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, which are crucial in shaping grassland communities but are sensitive to anthropogenic disturbance.

TL;DR: Testing for trade-offs between the benefit arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi provide for hosts and their competitive ability in host roots found that these AM fungal species competed for root space, and the best competitor, Scutellospora calospora, was the worst mutualist.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a chronosequence of 12 exarable fields in the Bolivian Altiplano, representing six soil ages of abandonment after cessation of potato cultivation, to examine whether soil aggregate stability increases after abandonment and the extent to which changes in soil bacterial and fungal community composition and soil chemical properties are involved in stability recovery.

TL;DR: A biogeography database summarizing data on AMF species distribution linked to geographic and environmental conditions is utilized to describe global distribution patterns and interpret these patterns within a phylogenetic perspective.

TL;DR: The experiments suggest that interactions between tropical trees and their associated AMF are species-specific and that these interactions may shape both tree and AMF communities through plant-soil feedback.