Misdiagnosis and uncritical use of plant mycorrhizal data are not the only elephants in the room

There is increasing interest in using plant mycorrhizal traits – characteristics related to a plant's ability to form mycorrhizal symbiosis – to understand the role of mycorrhizas within and across communities, ecosystems and biogeographical regions (Moora, 2014; Tedersoo, 2017). Recent studies incorporating plant mycorrhizal traits, mainly mycorrhizal type (e.g. ecto-mycorrhizal (ECM), ericoid-mycorrhizal (ERM), arbuscular-mycorrhizal (AM), and...