@article {KNZ001248,
	title = {Soil aggregation and carbon sequestration are tightly correlated with the abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: results from long-term field experiments},
	journal = {Ecology Letters},
	volume = {12},
	year = {2009},
	pages = {452 -461},
	abstract = {<p>We examined the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in ecosystems using soil aggregate stability and C and N storage as representative ecosystem processes. We utilized a wide gradient in AMF abundance, obtained through long-term (17 and 6 years) large-scale field manipulations. Burning and N-fertilization increased soil AMF hyphae, glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP) pools and water-stable macroaggregates while fungicide applications reduced AMF hyphae, GRSP and water-stable macroaggregates. We found that AMF abundance was a surprisingly dominant factor explaining the vast majority of variability in soil aggregation. This experimental field study, involving long-term diverse management practices of native multispecies prairie communities, invariably showed a close positive correlation between AMF hyphal abundance and soil aggregation, and C and N sequestration. This highly significant linear correlation suggests there are serious consequences to the loss of AMF from ecosystems.</p>},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ},
	doi = {10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01303.x},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01303.x},
	author = {G.T. Wilson and C. W. Rice and Rillig, M.C. and Springer, A. and D.C. Hartnett}
}
