Modeling the evolutionary rise of ectomycorrhiza on sub-surface weathering environments and the geochemical carbon cycle

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Abstract
For the past two decades, the spread of angiosperm plants in the Cretaceous and Paleogene has been thought to have enhanced silicate weathering fluxes of Ca and Mg to the oceans, thereby drawing down atmospheric CO~2~ and ultimately sequestering it in marine carbonate sediments. However, the rise of angiosperm trees in the Cretaceous was coincident with the evolution of ectomycorrhizal fungal associations in angiosperm and gymnosperm trees that have increasingly supplanted trees with the ancestral arbuscular-mycorrhizal associations. This represents the most profound alteration in root functioning to occur in plant evolutionary history, with far-reaching implications for weathering and soil biogeochemistry because the fine roots are enveloped with a fungal sheath. Ectomycorrhizal fungi provide the main nutrient and water-absorbing interface with soil, and the pathway through which organic acids and protons are actively secreted at the scale of individual mineral grains. Here, we test the hypothesis that the rise of ectomycorrhizal trees was a major contributor to the drawdown of atmospheric CO~2~ over the past 120 Ma through enhanced silicate weathering. We developed a process-based soil chemistry model incorporating the effects of plants with ancestral arbuscular mycorrhizas, and more recently evolved ectomycorrhizas on soil chemistry via its effects on the biological proton cycle, and integrated it into a leading model of the long-term carbon cycle (GEOCARBSULF). Our mechanistic, process-based modeling reveals that the rise of ectomycorrhizal trees can explain the CO~2~ drawdown previously attributed empirically to the spread of angiosperms. We suggest, therefore, that the evolutionary rise of ectomycorrhizas represents an important driving force of the long-term carbon cycle by enhancing chemical weathering and draw-down of atmospheric CO~2~ into marine carbonates.
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Authors D. Lee Taylor, Steven A. Banwart, Jonathan R. Leake, David J. Beerling
Journal american journal of science
Year 2011
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10.2475/05.2011.01
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https://ajs.scholasticahq.com/article/61849.pdf
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