soil fungal communities are resistant to nitrogen addition and resilient to host losses.

New work out of Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory!  Our exploration of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and dark septate endophyte response to nitrogen addition and dominant plant removals. We found after 4 years of treatment, fungal communities had minimal changes to both nutrient addition and plant removals. Additionally, a followup growth assay experiment revealed that differences in fungal communities did not alter growth of new hosts.