@article{654131927ca54aba935074655470ac18,
title = "From lilliput to brobdingnag: Extending models of mycorrhizal function across scales",
abstract = "Mycorrhizae occur in nearly all terrestrial ecosystems. Resource exchange between host plants and mycorrhizal fungi influences community, ecosystem, and even global patterns and processes. Understanding the mechanisms and consequences of mycorrhizal symbioses across a hierarchy of scales will help predict system responses to environmental change and facilitate the management of these responses for sustainability and productivity. Conceptual and mathematical models have been developed to help understand and predict mycorrhizal functions. These models are most developed for individual- and population-scale processes, but models at community, ecosystem, and global scales are also beginning to emerge. We review seven types of mycorrhizal models that vary in their scale of resolution and dynamics, and discuss approaches for integrating these models with each other and with general models of terrestrial ecosystems.",
keywords = "Models, Mycorrhizae, Plant-microbe interactions, Scale, Stoichiometry",
author = "Johnson, {Nancy Collins} and Hoeksema, {Jason D.} and Bever, {James D.} and Chaudhary, {V. Bala} and Catherine Gehring and John Klironomos and Roger Koide and Miller, {R. Michael} and John Moore and Peter Moutoglis and Mark Schwartz and Suzanne Simard and William Swenson and James Umbanhowar and Gail Wilson and Catherine Zabinski",
note = "Funding Information: This work was conducted as a part of the Narrowing the Gap between Theory and Practice in Mycorrhizal Management Working Group, supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, which in turn is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF grant DEB-0072909), the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the state of California. This work was also supported by NSF grants DEB-0415563 to C. G. and DEB-0316136 to N. C. J., DEB-0120169 and DEB-0217631 to J. M., and DEB-0049080 to J. D. B.; by a BLM grant (JSA990018) to N. C. J. and V. B. C.; and by Discovery grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to J. K. and S. S. The contribution from R. M. M. was supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, under contract W-31-109-Eng-38. We thank Lynette Abbott and Anne Pringle for helpful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript, Julie Wolf for supplying photographs for figure 3b and 3d, and Randy Swaty for providing the photograph for figure 3c.",
year = "2006",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1641/0006-3568(2006)56[889:FLTBEM]2.0.CO;2",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "56",
pages = "889--900",
journal = "BioScience",
issn = "0006-3568",
publisher = "American Institute of Biological Sciences",
number = "11",
}