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McGonigle method (Poaceae)

Subcategory: microscopy
Standard reference: McGonigle et al., (1990)
Papers: 23 | Mentions: 23

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Description

Microscopic assessment of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonization and other fungal colonization of plant roots using crosshair intercept method and grid line-intercept method for soil fungi.

Typical Equipment

  • microscope
  • grid line-intercept setup

Output Measurements

  • AM fungal colonization
  • septate fungal colonization
  • fungal hyphal length

Papers Using This Protocol (23)

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Experimental warming decouples plant-fungal symbiont interactions and leads to a more conservative ecosystem

2026PNASusing
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Warming disrupts plant–fungal endophyte symbiosis more severely in leaves than roots

2025Global Change Biologyusing
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Intraspecific Variation in Responses of a Montane Grass, <i> Festuca thurberi </i>, to Simulated Biological Invasion

2022Frontiers in Forests and Global Changeusing
student_paper

The impact of elevational gradients on dark septate endophytes (DSE) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in mountains

2020using
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Altitudinal gradients fail to predict fungal symbiont responses to warming

2019Ecologyusing
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Plant Identity Influences Foliar Fungal Symbionts More Than Elevation in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2019Microbial Ecologyusing
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Soil microbes that may accompany climate warming increase alpine plant production

2019Oecologiausing
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Context dependent biotic interactions control plant abundance across altitudinal environmental gradients

2019Ecographyusing
student_paper

Global Climate Change-Induced Mutualism Breakdown Among Legumes and their Soil Synbionts

2019using
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Fungal colonization of plant roots is resistant to nitrogen addition and resilient to dominant species losses

2019Ecosphereusing
student_paper

The Role of <i>Castilleja spp.</i> In Plant and Mycorrhizae Communities Within Various Climates

2017using
student_paper

The future of plant-fungal symbioses along elevational gradients

2016using
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Understanding how leaf endophytes are affected by climate change: Examining fungi in grass species with warming

2016using
student_paper

The Effects of Ants on Ecosystem Dynamics: Investigating the Ecological Influence of Ant Nests in the Rocky Mountains

2016using
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How do distributions of belowground grass-fungal symbioses change over altitudinal gradients in the Colorado Rocky Mountains?

2015using
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Phenology of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi and Dark Septate Endophytes across an elevation gradient.

2014using
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An Endophyte alters biological characteristics of the grass, Festuca thurberi.

2014using
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Responses of high-altitude graminoids and fungal fungi to 20 years of experimental warming

2014Ecologyusing
student_paper

Can fungal symbionts shift host niche dimensions to promote species coexistence?

2013using
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Won't you be my neighbor: neighborhood effect influences mycorrhizal and endophyte colonization

2013using
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How do above and belowground grass-fungus symbioses change over elevational gradients in mountainous Colorado?

2012using
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Can fungal symbionts shift host niche dimensions to promote species coexistence?

2011using
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Plant size influences mycorrhizal colonization of <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>

2011using