Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community recovers faster than plant community in historically disturbed Tibetan grasslands

The potential of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi in ecological restoration has been appreciated increasingly, yet the successional patterns of AM fungal community and their relatedness with plants and ecosystem functions during the recovery of degraded lands remain poorly understood. Here, we examined synchronously the root-associated AM fungal and plant communities as well as the ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) in paired historically...