1 New Phytologist Supporting Information Article Title: Are

New Phytologist Supporting Information
Article Title: Are there geographic mosaics of mycorrhizal specificity and partial
mycoheterotrophy? A case study in Moneses uniflora (Ericaceae)
Authors: Nicole A. Hynson1, Martin I. Bidartondo2 and David J. Read3
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Department of Botany, University of Hawaii Manoa, 3190 Maile Way Room 101, Honolulu, HI
96822, USA; 2Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College London and Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew TW9 3DS, UK; 3Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of
Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Article acceptance date: 2 July 2015
The following Supporting Information is available for this article:
Table S1 Sampling site locations including latitude and longitude, species collected and
replicates (n) from each site, and group.
Table S2 Mean 13C or 15N isotope enrichment factors by group or species with replicates (n),
and locality.
Methods S1 Enrichment factor calculation equation and statistical analyses.
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Table S1 Sampling site locations including latitude and longitude, species collected and
replicates (n) from each site, and group.
Locality and site
Olympic Peninsula, WA, USA
Sol Duc 1
Sol Duc 2
Latitude/longitude
47º57’29.70”N
123º49’97.53”W
47º57’27.70”N
123º49’95.67”W
Species (n)
Moneses
uniflora (1)
Tsuga
heterophylla
(3)
Vaccinium
parvifolium
(3)
Target species
Moneses
uniflora (1)
Listera
cordata (2)
Corallorhiza
striata (3)
Target species
Tsuga
heterophylla
(3)
Vaccinium
parvifolium
(3)
Sol Duc 3
Sol Duc 4
47º57’27.70”N
123º49’95.67”W
47º57’26.73”N
123º49’98.36”W
Group
Autotroph
Autotroph
Green orchid
Fully
mycoheterotrophic
orchid
Autotroph
Autotroph
Moneses
uniflora (1)
Listera
cordata (1)
Clintonia
uniflora (3)
Tsuga
heterophylla
(3)
Target species
Moneses
uniflora (1)
Listera
cordata (3)
Tsuga
heterophylla
(2)
Vaccinium
Target species
Green orchid
Autotroph
Autotroph
Green orchid
Autotroph
Autotroph
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parvifolium
(4)
Sol Duc 5
Hoh 1
Hoh 2
Västernorrland County, Sweden
Near Gideabergs bog
48º03’94.36”N
124º06’764.0”W
47º49’77.79”N
123º59’50.07”W
47º49’79.94”N
123º59’52.20”W
63°17’59.02”N
16°33’18.08”E
Moneses
uniflora (1)
Menziesia
ferruginea
(3)
Picea
sitchensis (2)
Tsuga
heterophylla
(3)
Target species
Moneses
uniflora (1)
Blechnum
spicant (2)
Tsuga
heterophylla
(2)
Vaccinium
parvifolium
(3)
Target species
Moneses
uniflora (1)
Hypopitys
monotropa
(1)
Picea
sitchensis (3)
Tsuga
heterophylla
(5)
Target species
Moneses
uniflora (8)
Epipogium
aphyllum (3)
Target species
Autotroph
Autotroph
Autotroph
Autotroph
Autotroph
Autotroph
Fully
mycoheterotrophic
Ericaceae
Autotroph
Autotroph
Fully
mycoheterotrophic
orchid
Oxalis sp. (3) Autotroph
Convallaria
Autotroph
majalis (3)
Paris
Autotroph
3
quadrifolia
(3)
Solidago
virgaurea (3)
East Sutherland Scotland, UK
Bonar Bridge Ardgay Golf Club
Balblair Woods
57°53’34.98”N
4°19’42.89”W
57º91’52.57”N
4º36’82.38”W
Autotroph
Moneses
uniflora (3)
Deschampsia
flexuosa (3)
Luzula
campestris
(3)
Veronica
chamaedrys
(3)
Target species
Moneses
uniflora (3)
Calluna
vulgaris
(3)
Empetrum
nigrum
(3)
Fagus
sylvatica (3)
Target species
Autotroph
Autotroph
Autotroph
Autotroph
Autotroph
Autotroph
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Table S2 Mean 13C or 15N isotope enrichment factors by group or species with replicates (n),
and locality.
Locality
Olympic Peninsula,
WA, USA
Västernorrland
County, Sweden
East Sutherland
Scotland, UK
Moneses uniflora (7)
Mean 13C by
locality (SE) ‰
1.33(0.45)
Mean 15N by
locality (SE) ‰
3.09(0.47)
Neottia cordata (6)
Corallorhiza striata (3)
Hypopitys monotropa (1)
Autotrophs (47)
1.1(0.6)
9.57(0.59)
7.34
0(0.11)
1.18(0.51)
10.38(0.38)
15.29
0(0.17)
Moneses uniflora (8)
-0.41(0.35)
2.52(0.29)
Epipogium aphyllum(3)
9.56(0.04)
9.88(1.5)
Autotrophs (12)
0(0.43)
0(0.35)
Moneses uniflora (6)
-2.17(0.32)
2.88(0.17)
Species or group (n)
Autotrophs (21)
0(0.33)
In parentheses is one standard error (SE) of the mean.
0(0.32)
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Methods S1
Enrichment factor calculation
Because leaf stable isotope compositions are influenced by local environmental conditions, to
make comparisons of these values across our study sites we used a data normalizing calculation
know as an isotope enrichment factor () approach (Preiss & Gebauer, 2008). Enrichment factors
were calculated on a site-by-site basis in the following way: = δXsample-δXref where δXsample is
the δ15N or δ13C of an individual sample (Moneses uniflora, autotrophic understory species,
green orchid or fully mycoheterotrophic species) and δXref is the mean δ15N or δ13C of all
autotrophic plants from a given site (Table S2). Enrichment factors per locality (northwest USA,
north eastern Scotland or northern Sweden – here after referred to as Olympic Peninsula,
Scotland or Sweden) and species (or group in the case of autotrophs) were then averaged (Fig. 1).
All values are shown 1 standard error (SE).
Statistical analyses
Shapiro-Wilk tests revealed that all enrichment factors for all localities were normally distributed
except for the 13C values for M. uniflora from Scotland, thus we used a non-parametric MannWhitney U’ tests for comparisons of the Scottish data. For the remaining localities (Olympic
Peninsula or Sweden) statistical comparisons between the enrichment factors for each species by
locality and their associated autotrophs were made using one-way ANOVAs with post hoc
Tukey HSD tests for multiple comparisons. These tests incorporated the spread of the data not
only for M. uniflora and fully mycoheterotrophic species, but the autotrophic references as well
since individual replicates of reference species are also subjected to the enrichment factor
calculation (i.e. statistical comparisons of M. uniflora are not to zero, but the variation of the
references and M. uniflora from zero). Also, we chose to analyze our data by locality rather than
site, thus increasing the total number of M. uniflora replicates and reference species for the
Olympic Peninsula and Scotland (Table S1). All statistics were carried out in SPSS v.22 (IMB
Armonk, NY, USA) and considered significant at ≤0.05.
Reference
Preiss K, Gebauer G. 2008. A methodological approach to improve estimates of nutrient gains
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