The impact of climate changes on belowground: How the CO2 increment affects arbuscular mycorrhiza?

COVACEVICH, F; BERBARA, RLL

Perspectives in Mycorrhizal Research

Bioscience Publications (Eds. Thangadurai E, Hijri M, Busso CA)

Lugar: India; Año: 2010; p. 203 - 211

Studies on how climate is changing, and how these changes differ along latitudes/ are much more advanced than studies on how global change will affect plant community structure and how it relates to soil symbionts along different ecosystems. There is an obvious need to understand the impact that global change, especially increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), will have on mycorrhizal symbioses. In this chapter we focused mainly on recent advances in our understanding of mycorrhizal association responses to environmental change, mainly to increases in atmospheric CO2.