Environmental Sciences and Ecology: Current Research
[ ISSN : 2833-0811 ]
Impact of Fire Incidences in Forest on Soil Microbes and Arbuscular Mycorrizae
Mini Review
Volume 2 - Issue 4
Published : July 24, 2021
Abstract
Both wildfire and prescribed burning results in imbalance in forest ecosystem by direct or indirect effects on soil, plants and microbes. The impact of fire varies with some factors-frequency and severity of fire, types of forest, plant species and edaphic properties. Most observations reported negative effect on soil micro-biota and increasing with fire severity, though bacteria are less affected than fungi, community alteration occurs for both. Reports on arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi are not enough; yet show alteration of species composition, abundance and colonization pattern, though help host plants to recover.