Download or read book Assembly of Root-associated Fungi in Different Soil Layers and Nitrogen Uptake by Ectomycorrhizae in Temperate Forests written by Anis Mahmud Khokon and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fungi are a remarkably highly diverse group of organisms on Earth, playing a pivotal role in ecosystem functioning. Belowground, they act as decomposers, pathogens or symbionts. Members of these functional categories are colonizing roots and have been defined as root-associated fungi. The abundance and distribution patterns of fungal communities are determined by various environmental factors, including soil and root properties, vegetation and climatic conditions. Soil fungal communities are known to be vertically stratified across different soil layers but our knowledge about root-associat...