‘There must be something in the soil our little plants need’: exploring patterns of potential mycorrhizal associations in the flora of the Sunshine Coast heathlands, Queensland, Australia

Hilary Pearl; Alison Shapcott

doi:10.1071/BT23057

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‘There must be something in the soil our little plants need’: exploring patterns of potential mycorrhizal associations in the flora of the Sunshine Coast heathlands, Queensland, Australia

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‘There must be something in the soil our little plants need’: exploring patterns of potential mycorrhizal associations in the flora of the Sunshine Coast heathlands, Queensland, Australia

Hilary Pearl and Alison Shapcott

Australian Journal of Botany, Vol.72(6), pp.1-9

2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/BT23057

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Abstract

community assembly

diversity

facilitation

heathlands

mycorrhiza

phylogenetic dispersion

phylogenetic diversity

Queensland

The first general overview of mycorrhizal functional groups associated with the flora of the Queensland Sunshine Coast heathlands, a community of low phylogenetic diversity, is provided in this Short Communication. Broad proportions of plant species associated with mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal functional groups in the heathlands were compared with those in the surrounding rainforest flora, and across the heath strata. This overview suggests that a greater diversity of mycorrhizal strategies and an increased number of plant genera with non-mycorrhizal associations are found in the heathlands, with proportions varying among the strata. These associations may be facilitating the coexistence of plant species and increasing phylogenetic dispersion.

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Title: ‘There must be something in the soil our little plants need’: exploring patterns of potential mycorrhizal associations in the flora of the Sunshine Coast heathlands, Queensland, Australia
Authors: Hilary Pearl (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and Engineering
Alison Shapcott (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Bioinnovation
Publication details: Australian Journal of Botany, Vol.72(6), pp.1-9
Publisher: C S I R O Publishing
Date published: 2024
DOI: 10.1071/BT23057
ISSN: 1444-9862; 0067-1924
Copyright note: © 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)
Data Availability: The heath specieslist and allocated mycorrhizalstrategies are available in the Table S1. The GenBank and BOLD accession numbersfor the heath species sequences are listed by Pearl et al. (2022). Further data that support this study will be shared upon reasonable request to the corresponding author.
Grant note: This work formed part of a PhD projectsupported by an AustralianGovernment Research Training Program Scholarship, the University of the Sunshine Coast, the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment – Equity Trustees Charitable Foundation and the Ecological Society of Australia. Funding was also received from the Friends of the Maroochy Bushland Botanic Gardens, Tanawha, and the Somerville House Old Girl’s Association.
Organisation Unit: School of Science, Technology and Engineering; Centre for Bioinnovation
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991064798302621
Output Type: Journal article

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