Taxonomic and Functional Response of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi to Land Use Change in Central Argentina

Abstract

It has been predicted that land use change will pose the main threattobiodiversity worldwide (Sala et al. 2000). A recent meta-analysis showsthat,at local scale, conversion and degradation of habitats promote onaverageglobal decline of 8.1 % of species richness and 10.1 % of abundance(Newbold et al. 2015). These human-mediated changes in biodiversitystrongly affect ecosystem stability (Hautier et al. 2015). Given theimportance of biodiversity on ecosystem functions and services, studies onthe effects of land use on species assemblages are highly relevant incurrent global context.