The rapid human‐driven changes in the environment during the Anthropocene have placed extreme stress on many plants and animals. Beneficial interactions with microorganisms may be crucial for ameliorating these stressors and facilitating the ecosystem services host organisms provide. Foliar endophytes, microorganisms that reside within leaves, are found in essentially all plants and can provide important benefits (e.g., enhanced drought tolerance or resistance to herbivory). However, it remains unclear how important the legacy effects of the abiotic stressors that select on these microbiomes are for affecting the degree of stress amelioration provided to their hosts. To elucidate foliar endophytes' role in host‐plant salt tolerance, especially if salinity experienced in the field selects for endophytes that are better suited to improve the salt tolerance of their hosts, we combined field collections of 90 endophyte communities from 30 sites across the coastal Everglades with a manipulative growth experiment assessing endophyte inoculation effects on host‐plant performance. Specifically, we grew >350 red mangrove (
- Award ID(s):
- 1832221
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10197021
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Remote Sensing
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 18
- ISSN:
- 2072-4292
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 2938
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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