treatments was replicated eight 

 times. Every two weeks until 

 September 1 1 , captured AMF and 

 other insects were removed from 

 spheres and treatments were 

 rotated to different trees within the 

 block of 72 trees. Besides 

 counting the number of AMF on a 

 sphere, we also recorded the 

 location of each captured AMF 

 according to top half or bottom half 

 of the sphere. 



Results 



In a preliminary test involving 

 16 replicates, we found no 

 difference in the number of AMF 

 captured by spheres without a disc 

 (1.1 AMF per sphere) and spheres 

 topped with a disc of 1.5-inches 

 diameter x %-inch tall (1.1 AMF 

 per sphere). This allowed us to 

 substitute spheres without discs for 

 spheres topped by discs of 1.5- 

 inches diameter x y4-inch tall in our 

 experimental protocol and hence 

 distribute eight replicates of nine 



Table 1. Capture of AMF on red plastic spheres (3.5-inches 

 diameter) topped by pink styrofoam discs of different sizes. 



There were no significant differences among treatments in 

 total captures of AMF at odds of 19 to 1. 



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