Response to Comment on "Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO2 fertilization effect"

César Terrer; Sara Vicca; Bruce A Hungate; Richard P Phillips; Peter B Reich; Oskar Franklin; Benjamin D Stocker; Joshua B Fisher; I Colin Prentice

doi:10.1126/science.aai8242

Response to Comment on "Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO2 fertilization effect"

Science. 2017 Jan 27;355(6323):358. doi: 10.1126/science.aai8242.

Authors

César Terrer¹, Sara Vicca², Bruce A Hungate^{3

4}, Richard P Phillips⁵, Peter B Reich^{6

7}, Oskar Franklin^{8

9}, Benjamin D Stocker¹⁰, Joshua B Fisher^{11

12}, I Colin Prentice¹⁰

Affiliations

¹ AXA Chair Programme in Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Imperial College London, Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK. c.terrer@imperial.ac.uk.
² Centre of Excellence PLECO (Plant and Vegetation Ecology), Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.
³ Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA.
⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA.
⁵ Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
⁶ Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA.
⁷ Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith NSW 2751, Australia.
⁸ Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.
⁹ Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden.
¹⁰ AXA Chair Programme in Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Imperial College London, Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK.
¹¹ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA.
¹² Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

PMID: 28126782
DOI: 10.1126/science.aai8242

Abstract

Norby et al center their critique on the design of the data set and the response variable used. We address these criticisms and reinforce the conclusion that plants that associate with ectomycorrhizal fungi exhibit larger biomass and growth responses to elevated CO₂ compared with plants that associate with arbuscular mycorrhizae.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Biomass
Mycorrhizae*
Plants / microbiology*