Concepts

The framework that climate affects species abundances and distributions both directly through physiological effects and indirectly through effects on multi-trophic species interactions

The coordination between plant and microbial diversity, wherein both communities experience large shifts in composition following disturbance or when a perturbation disrupts their coordinated response

Fungal symbionts that form specialized structures (arbuscules, vesicles) within plant root cells and are important for nutrient exchange

The geographic or environmental boundaries beyond which species cannot persist, potentially influenced by biotic interactions

A group of fungal endophytes characterized by dark-pigmented, septate hyphae that commonly colonize plant roots and can increase under environmental stress

Per-capita population growth rate λ calculated as the dominant eigenvalue of the projection matrix at equilibrium