Level of life
Ecosystem
A community of living things together with its physical environment, linked by flows of energy and nutrients.
Mycorrhizae
Partnerships between plant roots and fungi. A 2018 review estimated that only about 8 percent of vascular plant species have none.Source: Brundrett & Tedersoo, 2018Source: van der Heijden et al., 2015
Also called mycorrhizal fungi.
Process
How Mycorrhizae connects
Mycorrhizae is part of
Mycorrhizae is related to
Process
Nitrogen fixation
Some bacteria turn nitrogen gas into forms plants can use. Legumes house them in root nodules.
Studied in
Your progress
Sources & further reading
The explanations on this page are our own summaries of these sources. Follow a link to read the original; if anything here disagrees with it, the original wins. How we choose and check sources.
Evolutionary history of mycorrhizal symbioses and global host plant diversity (opens the original in a new tab)
Brundrett MC, Tedersoo L (2018). New Phytologist 220:1108-1115.
Peer-reviewedReviewMycorrhizal ecology and evolution: the past, the present, and the future (opens the original in a new tab)
van der Heijden MGA, Martin FM, Selosse MA, et al. (2015). New Phytologist 205:1406-1423.
Peer-reviewedReview