Conditioning effects on soil fungal guilds.
We tested the effects of conditioning time, conditioning plant
community, and forb:grass ratio including all interactions on i)
specific groups of soil fungi (AMF, saprotrophs, total pathogens, forb
pathogens, grass pathogens, and the dominating grass pathogenSlopeiomyces cylindrosporus ); ii) plant cover (i.e., total plant
cover, forb and grass cover) with general linear mixed models. Plot
number was included in the model as random effect, to indicate that one-
and two-year conditioned subplots belonged to the same plot.
Normality and homogeneity of the residuals were checked and data were
transformed when necessary (indicated in the respective summary tables).
All mixed models were performed in R using the ‘nlme ’ package
(Pinheiro et al. 2018).