Abstract
Abstract Species of the hypogeous fungus genus. Mesophellia have been shown to form ectomycorrhiza with Eucalyptus diversicolor and improve seedling growth. Since the morphology of these fungi increases their dependence on animal mycophagy for spore dispersal, these results imply a tripartite interrelationship between eucalypts, hypogeous fungi and marsupials which parallels the North American interrelationship between ectomycorrhizal pine, hypogeous fungi and rodents. An understanding of the independent but analogous interrelationships on the two continents has implications for forest management, especially in regard to the effects of forest conversion on other members of the ecosystem.
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Claims 4
Claim · model-written summary
Mesophellia forms ectomycorrhiza with Eucalyptus diversicolor.
- Taxon
- Eucalyptus diversicolor
Eucalyptus diversicolore0 - Interactor
- MesophelliaMesophelliae0symbiont
- Outcome
- form ectomycorrhizae0
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Verbatim
e0“Mesophellia have been shown to form ectomycorrhiza with Eucalyptus diversicolor”
Claim · model-written summary
Mesophellia improved Eucalyptus seedling growth.
- Taxon
- Eucalyptus diversicolorEucalyptus diversicolore0
- Interactor
- MesophelliaMesophelliae0symbiont
- Outcome
- seedling growthe0
- Direction
- improvee0
Not reportedTreatmentComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Mesophellia have been shown to form ectomycorrhiza with Eucalyptus diversicolor and improve seedling growth”
Claim · model-written summary
Fungal morphology increases dependence on animal consumption for spore dispersal.
- Taxon
- Eucalyptus diversicolorEucalyptus diversicolore1
- Outcome
- dependence on animal mycophagy for spore dispersale0
- Qualifier
- morphology of these fungie0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the morphology of these fungi increases their dependence on animal mycophagy for spore dispersal”
e1“Mesophellia have been shown to form ectomycorrhiza with Eucalyptus diversicolor”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors infer a eucalypt, fungus, and marsupial relationship analogous to a pine, fungus, and rodent relationship.
- Taxon
- eucalyptse0
- Interactor
- hypogeous fungie0symbiont
- Second interactor
- marsupialsMetatheriae0other
- Outcome
- tripartite interrelationship between eucalypts, hypogeous fungi and marsupialse0
Verbatim
e0“these results imply a tripartite interrelationship between eucalypts, hypogeous fungi and marsupials which parallels the North American interrelationship between ectomycorrhizal pine, hypogeous fungi and rodents”