Graduate student Kevin Beiler has uncovered the extent and architecture of this network through the  use of new molecular tools that can distinguish the DNA of one fungal  individual from another, or of one tree’s roots from another. He has  found that all trees in dry interior Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca)  forests are interconnected, with the largest, oldest trees serving as  hubs, much like the hub of a spoked wheel, where younger trees establish  within the mycorrhizal network of the old trees. Through careful  experimentation, recent graduate Francois Teste determined that survival  of these establishing trees was greatly enhanced when they were linked  into the network of the old trees.Through the use of stable isotope tracers,  he and Amanda Schoonmaker, a recent undergraduate student in Forestry,  found that increased survival was associated with belowground transfer  of carbon, nitrogen and water from the old trees. This research provides  strong evidence that maintaining forest resilience is dependent on  conserving mycorrhizal links, and that removal of hub trees could  unravel the network and compromise regenerative capacity of the forests.
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Mycorrhizal networks diagram by Kevin Beiler
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Graduate student Kevin Beiler has uncovered the extent and architecture of this network through the use of new molecular tools that can distinguish the DNA of one fungal individual from another, or of one tree’s roots from another. He has found that all trees in dry interior Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca) forests are interconnected, with the largest, oldest trees serving as hubs, much like the hub of a spoked wheel, where younger trees establish within the mycorrhizal network of the old trees. Through careful experimentation, recent graduate Francois Teste determined that survival of these establishing trees was greatly enhanced when they were linked into the network of the old trees.Through the use of stable isotope tracers, he and Amanda Schoonmaker, a recent undergraduate student in Forestry, found that increased survival was associated with belowground transfer of carbon, nitrogen and water from the old trees. This research provides strong evidence that maintaining forest resilience is dependent on conserving mycorrhizal links, and that removal of hub trees could unravel the network and compromise regenerative capacity of the forests.

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Mycorrhizal networks diagram by Kevin Beiler

(via Golan Levin)

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