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Bielčik M, Schlägel UE, Schäfer M, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Lakovic M, Sosa-Hernández MA, Hammer EC, Jeltsch F, Rillig MC. Aligning spatial ecological theory with the study of clonal organisms: the case of fungal coexistence. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2024. [PMID: 39073180 DOI: 10.1111/brv.13119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2023] [Revised: 06/28/2024] [Accepted: 07/02/2024] [Indexed: 07/30/2024]
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Established ecological theory has focused on unitary organisms, and thus its concepts have matured into a form that often hinders rather than facilitates the ecological study of modular organisms. Here, we use the example of filamentous fungi to develop concepts that enable integration of non-unitary (modular) organisms into the established community ecology theory, with particular focus on its spatial aspects. In doing so, we provide a link between fungal community ecology and modern coexistence theory (MCT). We first show how community processes and predictions made by MCT can be used to define meaningful scales in fungal ecology. This leads to the novel concept of the unit of community interactions (UCI), a promising conceptual tool for applying MCT to communities of modular organisms with indeterminate clonal growth and hierarchical individuality. We outline plausible coexistence mechanisms structuring fungal communities, and show at what spatial scales and in what habitats they are most likely to act. We end by describing challenges and opportunities for empirical and theoretical research in fungal competitive coexistence.
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- Miloš Bielčik
- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstr. 6, Berlin, 14195, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Altensteinstr.34, Berlin, 14195, Germany
- Microbial Biogeochemistry, Research Area Landscape Functioning, Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalder Str.84, Müncheberg, 15374, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Am Mühlenberg 3, House 60, Potsdam-Golm, 14476, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Am Mühlenberg 3, House 60, Potsdam-Golm, 14476, Germany
- Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Alte Messe 6, Leipzig, 04103, Germany
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- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstr. 6, Berlin, 14195, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Altensteinstr.34, Berlin, 14195, Germany
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Campus, Building R2, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, New South Wales, 2751, Australia
- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, Seminaarinkatu 15, Jyväskylä, 40014, Finland
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- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstr. 6, Berlin, 14195, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Altensteinstr.34, Berlin, 14195, Germany
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- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstr. 6, Berlin, 14195, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Altensteinstr.34, Berlin, 14195, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Microbial Ecology, Lund University, Ekologihuset, Sölvegatan 37, Lund, 22362, Sweden
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- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Altensteinstr.34, Berlin, 14195, Germany
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Am Mühlenberg 3, House 60, Potsdam-Golm, 14476, Germany
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- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstr. 6, Berlin, 14195, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Altensteinstr.34, Berlin, 14195, Germany
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Metzler P, Ksiazek-Mikenas K, Chaudhary VB. Tracking arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to their source: active inoculation and passive dispersal differentially affect community assembly in urban soils. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2024; 242:1814-1824. [PMID: 38294152 DOI: 10.1111/nph.19526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2023] [Accepted: 12/17/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2024]
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Communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi assemble passively over time via biotic and abiotic mechanisms. In degraded soils, AM fungal communities can assemble actively when humans manage mycorrhizas for ecosystem restoration. We investigated mechanisms of urban AM fungal community assembly in a 2-yr green roof experiment. We compared AM fungal communities in inoculated and uninoculated trays to samples from two potential sources: the inoculum and air. Active inoculation stimulated more distinct and diverse AM fungal communities, an effect that intensified over time. In the treatment trays, 45% of AM fungal taxa were detected in the inoculum, 2% were detected in aerial samples, 23% were detected in both inoculum and air, and 30% were not detected in either source. Passive dispersal of AM fungi likely resulted in the successful establishment of a small number of species, but active inoculation with native AM fungal species resulted in an immediate shift to a diverse and unique fungal community. When urban soils are constructed or modified by human activity, this is an opportunity for intervention with AM fungi that will persist and add diversity to that system.
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- Paul Metzler
- Environmental Studies Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
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- Environmental Studies Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
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Wang M, Wang C, Yu Z, Wang H, Wu C, Masoudi A, Liu J. Fungal diversities and community assembly processes show different biogeographical patterns in forest and grassland soil ecosystems. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1036905. [PMID: 36819045 PMCID: PMC9928764 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1036905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2022] [Accepted: 01/16/2023] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Soil fungal community has been largely explored by comparing their natural diversity. However, there is a relatively small body of literature concerned with fungal community assembly processes and their co-occurrence network correlations carried out across large spatial-temporal scales with complex environmental gradients in natural ecosystems and different habitats in China. Thus, soil fungal community assembly processes were assessed to predict changes in soil function in 98 different forest and grassland sites from the Sichuan, Hubei, and Hebei Provinces of China using high-throughput sequencing of nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS-2). The 10 most abundant fungal phyla results showed that Ascomycota was the most abundant phylum in forests from Sichuan province (64.42%) and grassland habitats from Hebei province (53.46%). Moreover, core fungal taxa (487 OTUs) represented 0.35% of total fungal OTUs. We observed higher fungal Shannon diversity and richness (the Chao1 index) from diverse mixed forests of the Sichuan and Hubei Provinces than the mono-cultured forest and grassland habitats in Hebei Province. Although fungal alpha and beta diversities exhibited different biogeographical patterns, the fungal assembly pattern was mostly driven by dispersal limitation than selection in different habitats. Fungal co-occurrence analyses showed that the network was more intense at Saihanba National Forest Park (SNFP, Hebei). In contrast, the co-occurrence network was more complex at boundaries between forests and grasslands at SNFP. Additionally, the highest number of positive (co-presence or co-operative) correlations of fungal genera were inferred from grassland habitat, which led fungal communities to form commensalism relationships compared to forest areas with having higher negative correlations (mutual exclusion or competitive). The generalized additive model (GAM) analysis showed that the association of fungal Shannon diversity and richness indices with geographical coordinates did not follow a general pattern; instead, the fluctuation of these indices was restricted to local geographical coordinates at each sampling location. These results indicated the existence of a site effect on the diversity of fungal communities across our sampling sites. Our observation suggested that higher fungal diversity and richness of fungal taxa in a particular habitat are not necessarily associated with more complex networks.
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Liu Z, Fang J, Song B, Yang Y, Yu Z, Hu J, Dong K, Takahashi K, Adams JM. Stochastic processes dominate soil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community assembly along an elevation gradient in central Japan. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 855:158941. [PMID: 36152859 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2022] [Revised: 09/18/2022] [Accepted: 09/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi play an important role in facilitating ecosystem function and stability. Yet, their community response patterns and ecological assembly processes along elevational gradients which cross a range of climates and soil conditions remain elusive. We used Illumina MiSeq sequencing to examine trends in soil AM fungal community along an elevational gradient from 100 m to 2300 m in central Japan. A total of 750 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) affiliated to 12 AM fungal genera were identified from soil samples, and the AM fungal community composition differed strongly with elevation, with variance explained more by climate, followed by soil and plant factors. The AM fungal α-diversity, network connectivity and complexity between AM fungal taxa and also with plant communities all exhibited a maximum at the mid-elevation of 800 m and then declined, principally influenced by soil pH and precipitation. Stochastic processes dominated AM fungal community assembly across the whole elevation gradient, with homogenizing dispersal being the main process. Only when AM fungal communities were contrasted across a relatively broad range of elevations, did variable selection (deterministic process) became significant, and even then in a mixed role with stochasticity. While OTUs of AM fungi are clearly adapted to particular environmental ranges, stochasticity due to rapid dispersal has a major role in determining their occurrence, suggesting that AM fungi may possess generalized and interchangeable niches, and can adjust their distribution rapidly - at least on the scale of a single mountain. This finding emphasizes that the roles of AM fungi in plant ecology may be non-specific and easily substituted, and furthermore that there is rapid local scale dispersal, which may allow plants to maintain effective AM associations under environmental change.
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- Zihao Liu
- School of Geography and Oceanography, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- School of Geography and Oceanography, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- School of Geography and Oceanography, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- School of Geography and Oceanography, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Integrative Biotechnology, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- Life Science Major, Kyonggi University, Suwon, South Korea.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan.
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- School of Geography and Oceanography, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
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Defending Earth's terrestrial microbiome. Nat Microbiol 2022; 7:1717-1725. [PMID: 36192539 DOI: 10.1038/s41564-022-01228-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Microbial life represents the majority of Earth's biodiversity. Across disparate disciplines from medicine to forestry, scientists continue to discover how the microbiome drives essential, macro-scale processes in plants, animals and entire ecosystems. Yet, there is an emerging realization that Earth's microbial biodiversity is under threat. Here we advocate for the conservation and restoration of soil microbial life, as well as active incorporation of microbial biodiversity into managed food and forest landscapes, with an emphasis on soil fungi. We analyse 80 experiments to show that native soil microbiome restoration can accelerate plant biomass production by 64% on average, across ecosystems. Enormous potential also exists within managed landscapes, as agriculture and forestry are the dominant uses of land on Earth. Along with improving and stabilizing yields, enhancing microbial biodiversity in managed landscapes is a critical and underappreciated opportunity to build reservoirs, rather than deserts, of microbial life across our planet. As markets emerge to engineer the ecosystem microbiome, we can avert the mistakes of aboveground ecosystem management and avoid microbial monocultures of single high-performing microbial strains, which can exacerbate ecosystem vulnerability to pathogens and extreme events. Harnessing the planet's breadth of microbial life has the potential to transform ecosystem management, but it requires that we understand how to monitor and conserve the Earth's microbiome.
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Li S, Tang R, Yi H, Cao Z, Sun S, Liu TX, Zhang S, Jing X. Neutral Processes Provide an Insight Into the Structure and Function of Gut Microbiota in the Cotton Bollworm. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:849637. [PMID: 35591990 PMCID: PMC9113526 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.849637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2022] [Accepted: 03/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Gut-associated microbes can influence insect health and fitness. Understanding the structure of bacterial communities provides valuable insights on how different species may be selected and their functional characteristics in their hosts. The neutral model is powerful in predicting the structure of microbial communities, but its application in insects remains rare. Here, we examined the contribution of neutral processes to the gut-associated bacterial communities in Helicoverpa armigera caterpillars collected from different maize varieties at four locations. The gut-associated bacteria can be assigned to 37 Phyla, 119 orders, and 515 genera, with each individual gut containing 17–75% of the OTUs and 19–79% of the genera in the pooled samples of each population. The distribution patterns of most (75.59–83.74%) bacterial taxa were in good agreement with the neutral expectations. Of the remaining OTUs, some were detected in more individual hosts than would be predicted by the neutral model (i.e., above-partition), and others were detected in fewer individual hosts than predicted by the neutral model (i.e., below-partition). The bacterial taxa in the above-partitions were potentially selected by the caterpillar hosts, while the bacteria in the below-partitions may be preferentially eliminated by the hosts. Moreover, the gut-associated microbiota seemed to vary between maize varieties and locations, so ecological parameters outside hosts can affect the bacterial communities. Therefore, the structure of gut microbiota in the H. armigera caterpillar was mainly determined by stochastic processes, and the bacteria in the above-partition warrant further investigation for their potential roles in the caterpillar host.
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- Sali Li
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China.,Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on the Loess Plateau of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China.,Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on the Loess Plateau of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China.,Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on the Loess Plateau of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China.,Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on the Loess Plateau of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China.,Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on the Loess Plateau of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China.,Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on the Loess Plateau of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China
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- Shandong Academy of Pesticide Sciences, Jinan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China.,Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on the Loess Plateau of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China
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Xu X, Qiu Y, Zhang K, Yang F, Chen M, Luo X, Yan X, Wang P, Zhang Y, Chen H, Guo H, Jiang L, Hu S. Climate warming promotes deterministic assembly of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2022; 28:1147-1161. [PMID: 34668627 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2021] [Accepted: 09/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) significantly contribute to plant resource acquisition and play important roles in mediating plant interactions and soil carbon (C) dynamics. However, it remains unclear how AMF communities respond to climate change. We assessed impacts of warming and precipitation alterations (30% increase or decrease) on soil AMF communities, and examined major ecological processes shaping the AMF community assemblage in a Tibetan alpine meadow. Our results showed that warming significantly increased root biomass, and available nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in soil. While precipitation alterations increased AMF abundances, they did not significantly affect the composition or diversity of AMF communities. In contrast, warming altered the composition of AMF communities and reduced their Shannon-Wiener index and Pielou's evenness. In particular, warming shifted the AMF community composition in favor of Diversisporaceae over Glomeraceae, likely through its impact on soil N and P availability. In addition, AMF communities were phylogenetically random in the unwarmed control but clustered in warming plots, implying more deterministic community assembly under climate warming. Warming enhancement of root growth, N and P availability likely reduced plant C-allocation to AMF, imposing stronger environmental filtering on AMF communities. We further proposed a conceptual framework that integrates biological and geochemical processes into a mechanistic understanding of warming and precipitation changes' effects on AMF. Taken together, these results suggest that soil AMF communities may be more sensitive to warming than expected, highlighting the need to monitor their community structure and associated functional consequences on plant communities and soil C dynamics under the future warmer climate.
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- Xinyu Xu
- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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Pine invasion drives loss of soil fungal diversity. Biol Invasions 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-021-02649-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Marion ZH, Orwin KH, Wood JR, Holdaway RJ, Dickie IA. Land use, but not distance, drives fungal beta diversity. Ecology 2021; 102:e03487. [PMID: 34289082 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2020] [Revised: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Fungi are one of the most diverse taxonomic groups on the planet, but much of their diversity and community organization remains unknown, especially at local scales. Indeed, a consensus on how fungal communities change across spatial or temporal gradients-beta diversity-remains nascent. Here, we use a data set of plant-associated fungal communities (leaf, root, and soil) across multiple land uses from a New Zealand-wide study to look at fungal community turnover at small spatial scales (<1 km). Using hierarchical Bayesian beta regressions and Hill-number-based diversity profiles, we show that fungal communities are often markedly dissimilar at even small distances, regardless of land use. Moreover, diversity profile plots indicate that leaf, root, and soil-associated communities show different patterns in the dominance or rarity of dissimilar species. Leaf-associated communities differed from site to site in their low-abundance species, whereas root-associated communities differed between sites in the dominant species; soil-associated communities were intermediate. Land-use differences were largely driven by the lower turnover between high-productivity grassland sites. Further, we discuss the implications and benefits of using diversity profile plots of turnover to draw inferences into the mechanisms of how communities are structured across spatial gradients.
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- Zachary H Marion
- Bio-Protection Research Centre, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, 4800 Private Bag, Christchurch, 8140, New Zealand
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- Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research, P.O. Box 69040, Lincoln, 7640, New Zealand
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- Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research, P.O. Box 69040, Lincoln, 7640, New Zealand
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- Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research, P.O. Box 69040, Lincoln, 7640, New Zealand
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- Bio-Protection Research Centre, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, 4800 Private Bag, Christchurch, 8140, New Zealand
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Zheng Y, Chen L, Ji NN, Wang YL, Gao C, Jin SS, Hu HW, Huang Z, He JZ, Guo LD, Powell JR. Assembly processes lead to divergent soil fungal communities within and among 12 forest ecosystems along a latitudinal gradient. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 231:1183-1194. [PMID: 33982802 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2021] [Accepted: 04/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Latitudinal gradients provide opportunities to better understand soil fungal community assembly and its relationship with vegetation, climate, soil and ecosystem function. Understanding the mechanisms underlying community assembly is essential for predicting compositional responses to changing environments. We quantified the relative importance of stochastic and deterministic processes in structuring soil fungal communities using patterns of community dissimilarity observed within and between 12 natural forests and related these to environmental variation within and among sites. The results revealed that whole fungal communities and communities of arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal fungi consistently exhibited divergent patterns but with less divergence for ectomycorrhizal fungi at most sites. Within those forests, no clear relationships were observed between the degree of divergence within fungal and plant communities. When comparing communities at larger spatial scales, among the 12 forests, we observed distinct separation in all three fungal groups among tropical, subtropical and temperate climatic zones. Soil fungal β-diversity patterns between forests were also greater when comparing forests exhibiting high environmental heterogeneity. Taken together, although large-scale community turnover could be attributed to specific environmental drivers, the differences among fungal communities in soils within forests was high even at local scales.
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- Yong Zheng
- State Key Laboratory for Subtropical Mountain Ecology of the Ministry of Science and Technology and Fujian Province, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China.,School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Subtropical Mountain Ecology of the Ministry of Science and Technology and Fujian Province, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China.,School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Subtropical Mountain Ecology of the Ministry of Science and Technology and Fujian Province, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China.,School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Subtropical Mountain Ecology of the Ministry of Science and Technology and Fujian Province, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China.,School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Subtropical Mountain Ecology of the Ministry of Science and Technology and Fujian Province, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China.,School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia
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Zheng Y, Maitra P, Gan HY, Chen L, Li S, Tu T, Chen L, Mi X, Gao C, Zhang D, Guo LD. Soil fungal diversity and community assembly: affected by island size or type? FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2021; 97:6247622. [PMID: 33890666 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiab062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2021] [Accepted: 04/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Fungi have a huge biodiversity and play important roles in soil biogeochemical cycling in island ecosystems. Although island biogeography has been widely studied for macroorganisms, fungal community assembly in true islands and its relationship with island area are less documented. We examined soil fungal communities in 18 oceanic islands of two types (eight non-coral islands and 10 coral islands) using the Illumina MiSeq sequencing technique. Our results showed that fungal α-diversity (species richness) was substantially different among the oceanic islands, with a higher value in non-coral islands than in coral islands. Fungal α-diversity was significantly affected by soil potassium and magnesium (Mg) and plant communities in non-coral islands, whereas only soil Mg significantly affected it in coral islands. Soil fungal community composition was significantly different in the non-coral and coral islands and was influenced by soil property, plant community and spatial distance. The ecological stochasticity model showed that the fungal community assembly was mainly governed by deterministic processes regardless of island type. Fungal β-diversity, but not α-diversity, increased significantly with increasing island area. These findings have implications for the better prediction of soil fungal community dynamics in island systems and biodiversity conservation in fragmented habitats.
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- Yong Zheng
- State Key Laboratory for Subtropical Mountain Ecology of the Ministry of Science and Technology and Fujian Province, School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, China.,State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Ma X, Geng Q, Zhang H, Bian C, Chen HYH, Jiang D, Xu X. Global negative effects of nutrient enrichment on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 229:2957-2969. [PMID: 33188641 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2020] [Accepted: 11/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Despite widespread anthropogenic nutrient enrichment, it remains unclear how nutrient enrichment influences plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) symbiosis and ecosystem multifunctionality at the global scale. Here, we conducted a meta-analysis to examine the worldwide effects of nutrient enrichment on AMF and plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality using data of field experiments from 136 papers. Our analyses showed that nutrient addition simultaneously decreased AMF diversity and abundance belowground and plant diversity aboveground at the global scale. The decreases in AMF diversity and abundance associated with nutrient addition were more pronounced with increasing experimental duration, mean annual temperature (MAT) and mean annual precipitation (MAP). Nutrient addition-induced changes in soil pH and available phosphorus (P) predominantly regulated the responses of AMF diversity and abundance. Furthermore, AMF diversity correlated with ecosystem multifunctionality under nutrient addition worldwide. Our findings identify the negative effects of nutrient enrichment on AMF and plant diversity and suggest that AMF diversity is closely linked with ecosystem function. This study offers an important advancement in our understanding of plant-AMF interactions and their likely responses to ongoing global change.
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- Xiaocui Ma
- Department of Ecology, Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210037, China
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- Department of Ecology, Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210037, China
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- Center for Scientific Research and Monitoring, Wuyishan National Park, Wuyishan, Fujian, 354300, China
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- Tiantong National Forest Ecosystem Observation and Research Station, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- Faculty of Natural Resources Management, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Rd, Thunder Bay, ON, P7B 5E1, Canada
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- Department of Ecology, Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210037, China
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- Department of Ecology, Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210037, China
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Dueñas JF, Camenzind T, Roy J, Hempel S, Homeier J, Suárez JP, Rillig MC. Moderate phosphorus additions consistently affect community composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in tropical montane forests in southern Ecuador. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2020; 227:1505-1518. [PMID: 32368801 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2020] [Accepted: 04/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Anthropogenic atmospheric deposition can increase nutrient supply in the most remote ecosystems, potentially affecting soil biodiversity. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) communities rapidly respond to simulated soil eutrophication in tropical forests. Yet the limited spatio-temporal extent of such manipulations, together with the often unrealistically high fertilization rates employed, impedes generalization of such responses. We sequenced mixed root AMF communities within a seven year-long fully factorial nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) addition experiment, replicated at three tropical montane forests in southern Ecuador with differing environmental characteristics. We hypothesized: strong shifts in community composition and species richness after long-term fertilization, site- and clade-specific responses to N vs P additions depending on local soil fertility and clade life history traits respectively. Fertilization consistently shifted AMF community composition across sites, but only reduced richness of Glomeraceae. Compositional changes were mainly driven by increases in P supply while richness reductions were observed only after combined N and P additions. We conclude that moderate increases of N and P exert a mild but consistent effect on tropical AMF communities. To predict the consequences of these shifts, current results need to be supplemented with experiments that characterize local species-specific AMF functionality.
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- Juan F Dueñas
- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstr. 6, Berlin, 14195, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, 14195, Germany
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- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstr. 6, Berlin, 14195, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, 14195, Germany
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- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstr. 6, Berlin, 14195, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, 14195, Germany
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- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstr. 6, Berlin, 14195, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, 14195, Germany
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- Plant Ecology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, 37073, Germany
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto, Loja, Ecuador
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- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstr. 6, Berlin, 14195, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, 14195, Germany
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Thakur MP, Phillips HRP, Brose U, De Vries FT, Lavelle P, Loreau M, Mathieu J, Mulder C, Van der Putten WH, Rillig MC, Wardle DA, Bach EM, Bartz MLC, Bennett JM, Briones MJI, Brown G, Decaëns T, Eisenhauer N, Ferlian O, Guerra CA, König‐Ries B, Orgiazzi A, Ramirez KS, Russell DJ, Rutgers M, Wall DH, Cameron EK. Towards an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2020; 95:350-364. [PMID: 31729831 PMCID: PMC7078968 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2019] [Revised: 10/07/2019] [Accepted: 10/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Soil is one of the most biodiverse terrestrial habitats. Yet, we lack an integrative conceptual framework for understanding the patterns and mechanisms driving soil biodiversity. One of the underlying reasons for our poor understanding of soil biodiversity patterns relates to whether key biodiversity theories (historically developed for aboveground and aquatic organisms) are applicable to patterns of soil biodiversity. Here, we present a systematic literature review to investigate whether and how key biodiversity theories (species-energy relationship, theory of island biogeography, metacommunity theory, niche theory and neutral theory) can explain observed patterns of soil biodiversity. We then discuss two spatial compartments nested within soil at which biodiversity theories can be applied to acknowledge the scale-dependent nature of soil biodiversity.
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- Madhav P. Thakur
- Department of Terrestrial EcologyNetherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO‐KNAW)WageningenGelderland, The Netherlands
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle‐Jena‐LeipzigLeipzigSaxony, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Leipzig UniversityLeipzigSaxony, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle‐Jena‐LeipzigLeipzigSaxony, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle‐Jena‐LeipzigLeipzigSaxony, Germany
- Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University JenaJenaThuringia, Germany
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of ManchesterManchesterNorth West England, UK
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- Centre for Biodiversity Theory and Modelling, Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station, CNRS and Paul Sabatier UniversityMoulisOccitanie, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UPECParisÎle-de-France, France
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- Department BiologicalGeological and Environmental Sciences, University of CataniaCataniaSicily, Italy
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- Department of Terrestrial EcologyNetherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO‐KNAW)WageningenGelderland, The Netherlands
- Laboratory of NematologyWageningen UniversityWageningenGelderland, The Netherlands
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- Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of BiologyBerlinGermany
- Berlin‐Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB)BerlinGermany
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- Asian School for the Environment, Nanyang Technological UniversitySingaporeSingapore
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- Department of Biology and School of Global Environmental SustainabilityColorado State UniversityFort CollinsCOUSA
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- Center of Functional Ecology, Department of Life SciencesUniversity of CoimbraCoimbraCentro, Portugal
- Universidade Positivo, Rua Professor Pedro Viriato Parigot de SouzaCuritiba Paraná, Brazil
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle‐Jena‐LeipzigLeipzigSaxony, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle‐WittenbergHalle (Saale)Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
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- Departamento de Ecología y Biología AnimalUniversidad de VigoVigoGalicien, Spain
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE UMR 5175, CNRS–Université de Montpellier–Université Paul‐Valéry Montpellier–EPHE)MontpellierOccitanie, France
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle‐Jena‐LeipzigLeipzigSaxony, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Leipzig UniversityLeipzigSaxony, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle‐Jena‐LeipzigLeipzigSaxony, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Leipzig UniversityLeipzigSaxony, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle‐Jena‐LeipzigLeipzigSaxony, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle‐WittenbergHalle (Saale)Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle‐Jena‐LeipzigLeipzigSaxony, Germany
- Institute of Computer Science, Friedrich Schiller University JenaJenaThuringia, Germany
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Sustainable Resources DirectorateIspraVareseItaly
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- Department of Terrestrial EcologyNetherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO‐KNAW)WageningenGelderland, The Netherlands
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- Senckenberg Museum of Natural History GörlitzGoerlitzSaxony, Germany
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- National Institute for Public Health and the EnvironmentBilthovenUtrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biology and School of Global Environmental SustainabilityColorado State UniversityFort CollinsCOUSA
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- Faculty of Biological and Environmental SciencesUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
- Department of Environmental ScienceSaint Mary's UniversityHalifaxNova ScotiaCanada
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Wang Z, Li Y, Li T, Zhao D, Liao Y. Conservation tillage decreases selection pressure on community assembly in the rhizosphere of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 710:136326. [PMID: 31923682 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2019] [Revised: 12/21/2019] [Accepted: 12/23/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Different tillage practices elicit various degrees of soil disturbance and significantly affect the community structure of soil microbes, especially rhizosphere microbes. However, little is known about the effects of tillage on community assembly and composition in the rhizosphere of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (RAMF). In this study, we investigated wheat RAMF communities under long-term different tillage patterns in an agroecosystem. The results showed that soil disturbance caused by tillage resulted in significant changes in RAMF communities, and this change varied with the degree of disturbance. Soil total nitrogen was the most relevant abiotic factor to RAMF communities. Notably, as a biotic selection factor, we found that cohesion of communities could also explain the changes in RAMF taxonomic and phylogenetic composition, which have not been revealed by other studies. Meanwhile, by analyzing the RAMF community assembly process under tillage practices, we found that stochastic processes dominated the assembly of RAMF communities under different tillage practices, and with the reduction of disturbance degree, the process occupied an increasingly important position. Overall, the structure and assembly process of the RAMF community in the rhizosphere varied with the degree of soil disturbance caused by tillage. These findings may provide more insights on underground processes and aid in the development of conservation tillage as a sustainable agricultural practice.
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- Ziting Wang
- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, PR China; State Key Laboratory for Conservation & Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530004, PR China; Guangxi Key Laboratory of Sugarcane Biology, Nanning, Guangxi 530004, PR China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, PR China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, PR China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, PR China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, PR China.
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Fungal communities do not recover after removing invasive Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard). Biol Invasions 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-019-02031-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Sudová R, Kohout P, Kolaříková Z, Rydlová J, Voříšková J, Suda J, Španiel S, Müller-Schärer H, Mráz P. Sympatric diploid and tetraploid cytotypes of Centaurea stoebe s.l. do not differ in arbuscular mycorrhizal communities and mycorrhizal growth response. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2018; 105:1995-2007. [PMID: 30552673 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2018] [Accepted: 08/28/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Genome duplication is associated with multiple changes at different levels, including interactions with pollinators and herbivores. Yet little is known whether polyploidy may also shape belowground interactions. METHODS To elucidate potential ploidy-specific interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), we compared mycorrhizal colonization and assembly of AMF communities in roots of diploid and tetraploid Centaurea stoebe s.l. (Asteraceae) co-occurring in a Central European population. In a follow-up greenhouse experiment, we tested inter-cytotype differences in mycorrhizal growth response by combining ploidy, substrate, and inoculation with native AMF in a full-factorial design. KEY RESULTS All sampled plants were highly colonized by AMF, with the Glomeraceae predominating. AMF-community composition revealed by 454-pyrosequencing reflected the spatial distribution of the hosts, but not their ploidy level or soil characteristics. In the greenhouse experiment, the tetraploids produced more shoot biomass than the diploids did when grown in a more fertile substrate, while no inter-cytotype differences were found in a less fertile substrate. AMF inoculation significantly reduced plant growth and improved P uptake, but its effects did not differ between the cytotypes. CONCLUSIONS The results do not support our hypotheses that the cytotype structure in a mixed-ploidy population of C. stoebe is mirrored in AMF-community composition and that ploidy-specific fungal communities contribute to cytotype co-existence. Causes and implications of the observed negative growth response to AMF are discussed.
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- Radka Sudová
- Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic
- Institute of Microbiology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, CZ-142 20, Prague, Czech Republic
- Department of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, CZ-128 44, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, CZ-142 20, Prague, Czech Republic
- Ecology Department, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Benátská 2, CZ-128 01, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Benátská 2, CZ-128 01, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Botany, Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, SK-845 23, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Biology, Ecology and Evolution, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 10, CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Benátská 2, CZ-128 01, Prague, Czech Republic
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Powell JR, Rillig MC. Biodiversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and ecosystem function. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2018; 220:1059-1075. [PMID: 29603232 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2017] [Accepted: 02/19/2018] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Contents Summary 1059 I. Introduction: pathways of influence and pervasiveness of effects 1060 II. AM fungal richness effects on ecosystem functions 1062 III. Other dimensions of biodiversity 1062 IV. Back to basics - primary axes of niche differentiation by AM fungi 1066 V. Functional diversity of AM fungi - a role for biological stoichiometry? 1067 VI. Past, novel and future ecosystems 1068 VII. Opportunities and the way forward 1071 Acknowledgements 1072 References 1072 SUMMARY: Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi play important functional roles in ecosystems, including the uptake and transfer of nutrients, modification of the physical soil environment and alteration of plant interactions with other biota. Several studies have demonstrated the potential for variation in AM fungal diversity to also affect ecosystem functioning, mainly via effects on primary productivity. Diversity in these studies is usually characterized in terms of the number of species, unique evolutionary lineages or complementary mycorrhizal traits, as well as the ability of plants to discriminate among AM fungi in space and time. However, the emergent outcomes of these relationships are usually indirect, and thus context dependent, and difficult to predict with certainty. Here, we advocate a fungal-centric view of AM fungal biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships that focuses on the direct and specific links between AM fungal fitness and consequences for their roles in ecosystems, especially highlighting functional diversity in hyphal resource economics. We conclude by arguing that an understanding of AM fungal functional diversity is fundamental to determine whether AM fungi have a role in the exploitation of marginal/novel environments (whether past, present or future) and highlight avenues for future research.
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- Jeff R Powell
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia
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- Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Altensteinstr. 6, D-14195, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research, D-14195, Berlin, Germany
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Huang Q, Wang Y, Xia Y, Li L, Luo J, Xia S, Sun Y, Miao Y, Wang K, Chen Y. Testing the neutral theory of biodiversity with the microbiome dataset from cystic fibrosis patients. Medicine (Baltimore) 2018; 97:e12248. [PMID: 30212959 PMCID: PMC6156045 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000012248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a hereditary disease that is characterized by defective mucociliary clearance, airway obstruction, chronic infection, and persistent inflammation. Cystic fibrosis pulmonary exacerbation (CFPE) majorly causes the morbidity of CF patients. Although CF has been demonstrated to change the composition of lung microbial community, previous studies have not made efforts to study the differences in the mechanism of assembly and diversity maintenance of lung microbial community in CF patients. In this study, we applied the neutral theory of biodiversity to comparatively investigate the assembly and diversity maintenance of the lung microbial community before and after the antibiotic treatment by reanalyzing the dataset from Fodor et al's study. We found that no one sample in the lung microbial communities of the sputum samples of Exacerbation group, nor those of End-of-treatment group satisfied the predictions of neutral model, suggesting that the neutral-process does not dominate in CF patients before and after antibiotic treatments. By comparing the biodiversity parameter between Exacerbation and End-of-treatment group, we found that the former had the significantly higher biodiversity, but the change in diversity parameter is slight and the P value is close to.05 (P value = .41). Therefore, our second finding is that although CFPE may increase the biodiversity of lung microbial community, the change is not essential.
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- Qi Huang
- Department of Gastroenterology, State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology, Guangdong Gastrointestinal Disease Research Center, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou
- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Yunnan Institute of Digestive Disease, Kunming
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- Institute of Mathematics and Information Science, Baoji University of Arts and Sciences, Baoji, Shaanxi
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- Computational Biology and Medical Ecology Lab, State Key Lab of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- Computational Biology and Medical Ecology Lab, State Key Lab of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Yunnan Institute of Digestive Disease, Kunming
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- Department of Gastroenterology, State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology, Guangdong Gastrointestinal Disease Research Center, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou
- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Yunnan Institute of Digestive Disease, Kunming
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Yunnan Institute of Digestive Disease, Kunming
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Yunnan Institute of Digestive Disease, Kunming
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- Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Yunnan Institute of digestive disease, Kunming, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology, Guangdong Gastrointestinal Disease Research Center, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou
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Gao C, Montoya L, Xu L, Madera M, Hollingsworth J, Purdom E, Hutmacher RB, Dahlberg JA, Coleman-Derr D, Lemaux PG, Taylor JW. Strong succession in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities. ISME JOURNAL 2018; 13:214-226. [PMID: 30171254 PMCID: PMC6298956 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0264-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2018] [Revised: 06/08/2018] [Accepted: 07/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The ecology of fungi lags behind that of plants and animals because most fungi are microscopic and hidden in their substrates. Here, we address the basic ecological process of fungal succession in nature using the microscopic, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) that form essential mutualisms with 70-90% of plants. We find a signal for temporal change in AMF community similarity that is 40-fold stronger than seen in the most recent studies, likely due to weekly samplings of roots, rhizosphere and soil throughout the 17 weeks from seedling to fruit maturity and the use of the fungal DNA barcode to recognize species in a simple, agricultural environment. We demonstrate the patterns of nestedness and turnover and the microbial equivalents of the processes of immigration and extinction, that is, appearance and disappearance. We also provide the first evidence that AMF species co-exist rather than simply co-occur by demonstrating negative, density-dependent population growth for multiple species. Our study shows the advantages of using fungi to test basic ecological hypotheses (e.g., nestedness v. turnover, immigration v. extinction, and coexistence theory) over periods as short as one season.
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- Cheng Gao
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3102, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3102, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3102, USA.,Plant Gene Expression Center, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Albany, CA, 94710, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3102, USA
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- University of California Kearney Agricultural Research & Extension Center, Parlier, CA, 93648, USA
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- Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- University of California West Side Research & Extension Center, UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, Five Points, CA, 93624, USA
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- University of California Kearney Agricultural Research & Extension Center, Parlier, CA, 93648, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3102, USA.,Plant Gene Expression Center, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Albany, CA, 94710, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3102, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3102, USA.
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in tropical rain forest are resilient to slash-and-burn agriculture. JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY 2018. [DOI: 10.1017/s0266467418000184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Abstract:Certain forestry and agricultural practices are known to affect arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal communities, but the effects of deforestation – including slash-and-burn management and other more severe disturbances – in tropical rain forests are poorly understood. We addressed the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on rain-forest AM fungal communities in French Guiana, by comparing mature tropical rain forest, slash-and-burn (5 y old) and clearcut areas (8 y old). A total of 36 soil samples were collected in six plots and sequenced using a high throughput 454-pyrosequencing platform. A total of 32649 sequences from 103 AM fungal virtual taxa (VT) were recorded. Whereas alpha diversity of AM fungi did not decrease due to land-use intensification, with average richness ranging from 17 to 21 taxa per plot, beta diversity (average distance to multivariate centroid) dropped by 28% from 0.46 in rain forest to 0.33 under clearcutting. AM fungal community composition was correlated with land use and soil chemical properties. Clearcut areas were characterized by the more frequent occurrence of specialist AM fungi, compared with mature forest or slash-and-burn areas. Specifically, clearcuts contained the highest proportions of VT that were geographic (21%), habitat (31%), abundance (97%) or host (97%) specialists based on VT metadata contained in the MaarjAM database. This suggests that certain AM fungi with narrow ecological niches have traits that allow them to exploit conditions of severe disturbance. In conclusion, slash-and-burn management appears to allow diverse AM fungal communities to persist, and may favour regeneration of tropical rain forest after abandonment. More severe disturbance in the form of clearcutting resulted in marked changes in AM fungal communities.
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García de León D, Davison J, Moora M, Öpik M, Feng H, Hiiesalu I, Jairus T, Koorem K, Liu Y, Phosri C, Sepp SK, Vasar M, Zobel M. Anthropogenic disturbance equalizes diversity levels in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2018; 24:2649-2659. [PMID: 29573508 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2017] [Revised: 02/07/2018] [Accepted: 03/06/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is a key plant-microbe interaction in sustainable functioning ecosystems. Increasing anthropogenic disturbance poses a threat to AM fungal communities worldwide, but there is little empirical evidence about its potential negative consequences. In this global study, we sequenced AM fungal DNA in soil samples collected from pairs of natural (undisturbed) and anthropogenic (disturbed) plots in two ecosystem types (10 naturally wooded and six naturally unwooded ecosystems). We found that ecosystem type had stronger directional effects than anthropogenic disturbance on AM fungal alpha and beta diversity. However, disturbance increased alpha and beta diversity at sites where natural diversity was low and decreased diversity at sites where natural diversity was high. Cultured AM fungal taxa were more prevalent in anthropogenic than natural plots, probably due to their efficient colonization strategies and ability to recover from disturbance. We conclude that anthropogenic disturbance does not have a consistent directional effect on AM fungal diversity; rather, disturbance equalizes levels of diversity at large scales and causes changes in community functional structure.
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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Curd EE, Martiny JBH, Li H, Smith TB. Bacterial diversity is positively correlated with soil heterogeneity. Ecosphere 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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- Emily E. Curd
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Los Angeles 612 Charles E. Young Drive South, Box 957246 Los Angeles California 90095 USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine 321 Steinhaus Hall Irvine California 92697 USA
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- Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging David Geffen School of Medicine University of California Los Angeles 650 Charles E. Young Drive South Los Angeles California 90095 USA
- DOE Institute University of California Los Angeles 611 Charles E. Young Drive East Los Angeles California 90095 USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Los Angeles 612 Charles E. Young Drive South, Box 957246 Los Angeles California 90095 USA
- Center for Tropical Research University of California Los Angeles LaKretz Hall, 619 Charles E. Young Drive East, #300 Los Angeles California 90095 USA
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Global change alters the composition and functioning of ecosystems by creating novel environmental conditions and thereby selecting for specific traits of organisms. Thus, trait-based approaches are promising tools to more mechanistically understand compositional and functional shifts in ecological communities as well as the dependency of response and effect traits upon global change. Such approaches have been particularly successful for the study of plant communities in terrestrial ecosystems. However, given the intimate linkages between aboveground and belowground compartments as well as the significance of plants as integrating organisms across those compartments, the role of plant traits in affecting soils communities has been understudied. This special issue contains empirical studies and reviews of plant trait effects on soil organisms and functions. Based on those contributions, we discuss here plasticity in trait expression, the context-dependency of plant trait effects, time lags in soil biotic responses to trait expression, and limitations of measured plant traits. We conclude that plant trait-based approaches are an important tool to advance soil ecological research, but also identify critical limitations and next steps.
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- Nico Eisenhauer
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW 2751, Australia
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Anthony MA, Frey SD, Stinson KA. Fungal community homogenization, shift in dominant trophic guild, and appearance of novel taxa with biotic invasion. Ecosphere 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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- M. A. Anthony
- Department of Natural Resources and the Environment University of New Hampshire 56 College Road Durham New Hampshire 03824 USA
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- Department of Natural Resources and the Environment University of New Hampshire 56 College Road Durham New Hampshire 03824 USA
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- Department of Environmental Conservation University of Massachusetts 160 Holdsworth Way Amherst Massachusetts 01002 USA
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Egan CP, Callaway RM, Hart MM, Pither J, Klironomos J. Phylogenetic structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities along an elevation gradient. MYCORRHIZA 2017; 27:273-282. [PMID: 27909817 DOI: 10.1007/s00572-016-0752-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2016] [Accepted: 11/23/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Despite the importance of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi within terrestrial ecosystems, we know little about how natural AM fungal communities are structured. To date, the majority of studies examining AM fungal community diversity have focused on single habitats with similar environmental conditions, with relatively few studies having assessed the diversity of AM fungi over large-scale environmental gradients. In this study, we characterized AM fungal communities in the soil along a high-elevation gradient in the North American Rocky Mountains. We focused on phylogenetic patterns of AM fungal communities to gain insight into how AM fungal communities are naturally assembled. We found that alpine AM fungal communities had lower phylogenetic diversity relative to lower elevation communities, as well as being more heterogeneous in composition than either treeline or subalpine communities. AM fungal communities were phylogenetically clustered at all elevations sampled, suggesting that environmental filtering, either selection by host plants or fungal niches, is the primary ecological process structuring communities along the gradient.
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- Cameron P Egan
- Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus, 3333 University Way, Kelowna, BC, V1V 1V7, Canada.
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- Division of Biological Sciences and the Institute on Ecosystems, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 59812, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus, 3333 University Way, Kelowna, BC, V1V 1V7, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus, 3333 University Way, Kelowna, BC, V1V 1V7, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus, 3333 University Way, Kelowna, BC, V1V 1V7, Canada
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Horn S, Hempel S, Verbruggen E, Rillig MC, Caruso T. Linking the community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plants: a story of interdependence? ISME JOURNAL 2017; 11:1400-1411. [PMID: 28244977 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2017.5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2015] [Revised: 12/14/2016] [Accepted: 12/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are crucial to plants and vice versa, but little is known about the factors linking the community structure of the two groups. We investigated the association between AMF and the plant community structure in the nearest neighborhood of Festuca brevipila in a semiarid grassland with steep environmental gradients, using high-throughput sequencing of the Glomeromycotina (former Glomeromycota). We focused on the Passenger, Driver and Habitat hypotheses: (i) plant communities drive AMF (passenger); (ii) AMF communities drive the plants (driver); (iii) the environment shapes both communities causing covariation. The null hypothesis is that the two assemblages are independent and this study offers a spatially explicit novel test of it in the field at multiple, small scales. The AMF community consisted of 71 operational taxonomic units, the plant community of 47 species. Spatial distance and spatial variation in the environment were the main determinants of the AMF community. The structure of the plant community around the focal plant was a poor predictor of AMF communities, also in terms of phylogenetic community structure. Some evidence supports the passenger hypothesis, but the relative roles of the factors structuring the two groups clearly differed, leading to an apparent decoupling of the two assemblages at the relatively small scale of this study. Community phylogenetic structure in AMF suggests an important role of within-assemblage interactions.
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- Sebastian Horn
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia.,Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
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- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany.,Institut für Biologie-Ökologie der Pflanzen, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Research group of Plant and Vegetation Ecology (PLECO), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
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- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany.,Institut für Biologie-Ökologie der Pflanzen, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences and Institute for Global Food Security, Queen's University Belfast, Medical Biology Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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Gorzelak MA, Pickles BJ, Hart MM. Exploring the symbiont diversity of ancient western redcedars: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi of long-lived hosts. Mol Ecol 2017; 26:1586-1597. [PMID: 28099772 DOI: 10.1111/mec.14023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2016] [Revised: 12/26/2016] [Accepted: 01/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are globally distributed, monophyletic root symbionts with ancient origins. Their contribution to carbon cycling and nutrient dynamics is ecologically important, given their obligate association with over 70% of vascular plant species. Current understanding of AMF species richness and community structure is based primarily on studies of grasses, herbs and agricultural crops, typically in disturbed environments. Few studies have considered AMF interactions with long-lived woody perennial species in undisturbed ecosystems. Here we examined AMF communities associated with roots and soils of young, mature and old western redcedar (Thuja plicata) at two sites in the old-growth temperate rainforests of British Columbia. Due to the unique biology of AMF, community richness and structure were assessed using a conservative, clade-based approach. We found 91 AMF OTUs across all samples, with significantly greater AMF richness in the southern site, but no differences in richness along the host chronosequence at either site. All host age classes harboured AMF communities that were overdispersed (more different to each other than expected by chance), with young tree communities most resembling old tree communities. A comparison with similar clade richness data obtained from the literature indicates that western redcedar AMF communities are as rich as those of grasses, tropical trees and palms. Our examination of undisturbed temperate old-growth rainforests suggests that priority effects, rather than succession, are an important aspect of AMF community assembly in this ecosystem.
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- Monika A Gorzelak
- Department of Forest and Conservation Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Harborne Building, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 8AS, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, V1V 1V7, Canada
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Vályi K, Mardhiah U, Rillig MC, Hempel S. Community assembly and coexistence in communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. THE ISME JOURNAL 2016; 10:2341-51. [PMID: 27093046 PMCID: PMC5030697 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2016.46] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2015] [Revised: 02/15/2016] [Accepted: 02/17/2016] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are asexual, obligately symbiotic fungi with unique morphology and genomic structure, which occupy a dual niche, that is, the soil and the host root. Consequently, the direct adoption of models for community assembly developed for other organism groups is not evident. In this paper we adapted modern coexistence and assembly theory to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. We review research on the elements of community assembly and coexistence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, highlighting recent studies using molecular methods. By addressing several points from the individual to the community level where the application of modern community ecology terms runs into problems when arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are concerned, we aim to account for these special circumstances from a mycocentric point of view. We suggest that hierarchical spatial structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities should be explicitly taken into account in future studies. The conceptual framework we develop here for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi is also adaptable for other host-associated microbial communities.
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- Kriszta Vályi
- Department of Plant Ecology, Institut für Biologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Plant Ecology, Institut für Biologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Plant Ecology, Institut für Biologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Plant Ecology, Institut für Biologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research, Berlin, Germany
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Testing the Neutral Theory of Biodiversity with Human Microbiome Datasets. Sci Rep 2016; 6:31448. [PMID: 27527985 PMCID: PMC4985628 DOI: 10.1038/srep31448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2015] [Accepted: 07/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The human microbiome project (HMP) has made it possible to test important ecological theories for arguably the most important ecosystem to human health-the human microbiome. Existing limited number of studies have reported conflicting evidence in the case of the neutral theory; the present study aims to comprehensively test the neutral theory with extensive HMP datasets covering all five major body sites inhabited by the human microbiome. Utilizing 7437 datasets of bacterial community samples, we discovered that only 49 communities (less than 1%) satisfied the neutral theory, and concluded that human microbial communities are not neutral in general. The 49 positive cases, although only a tiny minority, do demonstrate the existence of neutral processes. We realize that the traditional doctrine of microbial biogeography "Everything is everywhere, but the environment selects" first proposed by Baas-Becking resolves the apparent contradiction. The first part of Baas-Becking doctrine states that microbes are not dispersal-limited and therefore are neutral prone, and the second part reiterates that the freely dispersed microbes must endure selection by the environment. Therefore, in most cases, it is the host environment that ultimately shapes the community assembly and tip the human microbiome to niche regime.
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Deterministic processes vary during community assembly for ecologically dissimilar taxa. Nat Commun 2015; 6:8444. [PMID: 26436640 PMCID: PMC4600744 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2015] [Accepted: 08/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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The continuum hypothesis states that both deterministic and stochastic processes contribute to the assembly of ecological communities. However, the contextual dependency of these processes remains an open question that imposes strong limitations on predictions of community responses to environmental change. Here we measure community and habitat turnover across multiple vertical soil horizons at 183 sites across Scotland for bacteria and fungi, both dominant and functionally vital components of all soils but which differ substantially in their growth habit and dispersal capability. We find that habitat turnover is the primary driver of bacterial community turnover in general, although its importance decreases with increasing isolation and disturbance. Fungal communities, however, exhibit a highly stochastic assembly process, both neutral and non-neutral in nature, largely independent of disturbance. These findings suggest that increased focus on dispersal limitation and biotic interactions are necessary to manage and conserve the key ecosystem services provided by these assemblages. Both deterministic and stochastic processes likely contribute to the assembly of ecological communities. Here, Powell et al. measure soil microbial community and habitat turnover across Scotland and show that stochastic processes usually dominate the assembly of fungal but not bacterial communities.
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Kohout P, Doubková P, Bahram M, Suda J, Tedersoo L, Voříšková J, Sudová R. Niche partitioning in arbuscular mycorrhizal communities in temperate grasslands: a lesson from adjacent serpentine and nonserpentine habitats. Mol Ecol 2015; 24:1831-43. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.13147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2014] [Revised: 03/03/2015] [Accepted: 03/05/2015] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- Petr Kohout
- Institute of Botany; The Czech Academy of Science; CZ-252 43 Průhonice Czech Republic
- Department of Botany; Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences; University of Tartu; EE-510 05 Tartu Estonia
- Department of Experimental Plant Biology; Faculty of Science; Charles University in Prague; CZ-128 44 Prague 2 Czech Republic
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- Institute of Botany; The Czech Academy of Science; CZ-252 43 Průhonice Czech Republic
- Department of Experimental Plant Biology; Faculty of Science; Charles University in Prague; CZ-128 44 Prague 2 Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany; Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences; University of Tartu; EE-510 05 Tartu Estonia
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- Institute of Botany; The Czech Academy of Science; CZ-252 43 Průhonice Czech Republic
- Department of Botany; Faculty of Science; Charles University in Prague; CZ-128 01 Prague 2 Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany; Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences; University of Tartu; EE-510 05 Tartu Estonia
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- Institute of Microbiology; The Czech Academy of Science; CZ-142 20 Prague 4 Czech Republic
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- Institute of Botany; The Czech Academy of Science; CZ-252 43 Průhonice Czech Republic
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Bahram M, Peay KG, Tedersoo L. Local-scale biogeography and spatiotemporal variability in communities of mycorrhizal fungi. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2015; 205:1454-1463. [PMID: 25767850 DOI: 10.1111/nph.13206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Knowledge of spatiotemporal patterns in species distribution is fundamental to understanding the ecological and evolutionary processes shaping communities. The emergence of DNA-based tools has expanded the geographic and taxonomic scope of studies examining spatial and temporal distribution of mycorrhizal fungi. However, the nature of spatiotemporal patterns documented and subsequent interpretation of ecological processes can vary significantly from study to study. In order to look for general patterns we synthesize the available data across different sampling scales and mycorrhizal types. The results of this analysis shed light on the relative importance of space, time and vertical soil structure on community variability across different mycorrhizal types. Although we found no significant trend in spatiotemporal variation amongmycorrhizal types, the vertical community variation was distinctly greater than the spatial and temporal variability in mycorrhizal fungal communities. Both spatial and temporal variability of communities was greater in topsoil compared with lower horizons, suggesting that greater environmental heterogeneity drives community variation on a fine scale. This further emphasizes the importance of both niche differentiation and environmental filtering in maintaining diverse fungal communities.
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Chaudhary VB, O'Dell TE, Rillig MC, Johnson NC. Multiscale patterns of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal abundance and diversity in semiarid shrublands. FUNGAL ECOL 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2014.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Kivlin SN, Winston GC, Goulden ML, Treseder KK. Environmental filtering affects soil fungal community composition more than dispersal limitation at regional scales. FUNGAL ECOL 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2014.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Maaß S, Migliorini M, Rillig MC, Caruso T. Disturbance, neutral theory, and patterns of beta diversity in soil communities. Ecol Evol 2014; 4:4766-74. [PMID: 25558367 PMCID: PMC4278825 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2014] [Revised: 09/20/2014] [Accepted: 10/09/2014] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Beta diversity describes how local communities within an area or region differ in species composition/abundance. There have been attempts to use changes in beta diversity as a biotic indicator of disturbance, but lack of theory and methodological caveats have hampered progress. We here propose that the neutral theory of biodiversity plus the definition of beta diversity as the total variance of a community matrix provide a suitable, novel, starting point for ecological applications. Observed levels of beta diversity (BD) can be compared to neutral predictions with three possible outcomes: Observed BD equals neutral prediction or is larger (divergence) or smaller (convergence) than the neutral prediction. Disturbance might lead to either divergence or convergence, depending on type and strength. We here apply these ideas to datasets collected on oribatid mites (a key, very diverse soil taxon) under several regimes of disturbances. When disturbance is expected to increase the heterogeneity of soil spatial properties or the sampling strategy encompassed a range of diverging environmental conditions, we observed diverging assemblages. On the contrary, we observed patterns consistent with neutrality when disturbance could determine homogenization of soil properties in space or the sampling strategy encompassed fairly homogeneous areas. With our method, spatial and temporal changes in beta diversity can be directly and easily monitored to detect significant changes in community dynamics, although the method itself cannot inform on underlying mechanisms. However, human-driven disturbances and the spatial scales at which they operate are usually known. In this case, our approach allows the formulation of testable predictions in terms of expected changes in beta diversity, thereby offering a promising monitoring tool.
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- Stefanie Maaß
- Institut für Biologie, Plant Ecology, Freie Universität BerlinAltensteinstraße 6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB)14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Sienavia Aldo Moro 2, Siena, 53100, Italy
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- Institut für Biologie, Plant Ecology, Freie Universität BerlinAltensteinstraße 6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB)14195, Berlin, Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University of Belfast97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL, Northern Ireland
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Horn S, Caruso T, Verbruggen E, Rillig MC, Hempel S. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities are phylogenetically clustered at small scales. THE ISME JOURNAL 2014; 8:2231-42. [PMID: 24824667 PMCID: PMC4992081 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.72] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2013] [Revised: 04/01/2014] [Accepted: 04/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Next-generation sequencing technologies with markers covering the full Glomeromycota phylum were used to uncover phylogenetic community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) associated with Festuca brevipila. The study system was a semi-arid grassland with high plant diversity and a steep environmental gradient in pH, C, N, P and soil water content. The AMF community in roots and rhizosphere soil were analyzed separately and consisted of 74 distinct operational taxonomic units (OTUs) in total. Community-level variance partitioning showed that the role of environmental factors in determining AM species composition was marginal when controlling for spatial autocorrelation at multiple scales. Instead, phylogenetic distance and spatial distance were major correlates of AMF communities: OTUs that were more closely related (and which therefore may have similar traits) were more likely to co-occur. This pattern was insensitive to phylogenetic sampling breadth. Given the minor effects of the environment, we propose that at small scales closely related AMF positively associate through biotic factors such as plant-AMF filtering and interactions within the soil biota.
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- Sebastian Horn
- Institut für Biologie—Ökologie der Pflanzen, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Medical Biology Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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- Institut für Biologie—Ökologie der Pflanzen, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Biologie—Ökologie der Pflanzen, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Biologie—Ökologie der Pflanzen, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
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Powell JR, Sikes BA. Method or madness: does OTU delineation bias our perceptions of fungal ecology? THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2014; 202:1095-1097. [PMID: 24806943 DOI: 10.1111/nph.12823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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- Jeff R Powell
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Richmond, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 66047, USA
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Shi G, Liu Y, Mao L, Jiang S, Zhang Q, Cheng G, An L, Du G, Feng H. Relative importance of deterministic and stochastic processes in driving arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblage during the spreading of a toxic plant. PLoS One 2014; 9:e95672. [PMID: 24748393 PMCID: PMC3991703 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2013] [Accepted: 03/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Both deterministic and stochastic processes are expected to drive the assemblages of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, but little is known about the relative importance of these processes during the spreading of toxic plants. Here, the species composition and phylogenetic structure of AM fungal communities colonizing the roots of a toxic plant, Ligularia virgaurea, and its neighborhood plants, were analyzed in patches with different individual densities of L. virgaurea (represents the spreading degree). Community compositions of AM fungi in both root systems were changed significantly by the L. virgaurea spreading, and also these communities fitted the neutral model very well. AM fungal communities in patches with absence and presence of L. virgaurea were phylogenetically random and clustered, respectively, suggesting that the principal ecological process determining AM fungal assemblage shifted from stochastic process to environmental filtering when this toxic plant was present. Our results indicate that deterministic and stochastic processes together determine the assemblage of AM fungi, but the dominant process would be changed by the spreading of toxic plants, and suggest that the spreading of toxic plants in alpine meadow ecosystems might be involving the mycorrhizal symbionts.
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- Guoxi Shi
- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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Handley KM, Wrighton KC, Miller CS, Wilkins MJ, Kantor RS, Thomas BC, Williams KH, Gilbert JA, Long PE, Banfield JF. Disturbed subsurface microbial communities follow equivalent trajectories despite different structural starting points. Environ Microbiol 2014; 17:622-36. [PMID: 24674078 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2013] [Accepted: 03/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Microbial community structure, and niche and neutral processes can all influence response to disturbance. Here, we provide experimental evidence for niche versus neutral and founding community effects during a bioremediation-related organic carbon disturbance. Subsurface sediment, partitioned into 22 flow-through columns, was stimulated in situ by the addition of acetate as a carbon and electron donor source. This drove the system into a new transient biogeochemical state characterized by iron reduction and enriched Desulfuromonadales, Comamonadaceae and Bacteroidetes lineages. After approximately 1 month conditions favoured sulfate reduction, and were accompanied by a substantial increase in the relative abundance of Desulfobulbus, Desulfosporosinus, Desulfitobacterium and Desulfotomaculum. Two subsets of four to five columns each were switched from acetate to lactate amendment during either iron (earlier) or sulfate (later) reduction. Hence, subsets had significantly different founding communities. All lactate treatments exhibited lower relative abundances of Desulfotomaculum and Bacteroidetes, enrichments of Clostridiales and Psychrosinus species, and a temporal succession from highly abundant Clostridium sensu stricto to Psychrosinus. Regardless of starting point, lactate-switch communities followed comparable structural trajectories, whereby convergence was evident 9 to 16 days after each switch, and significant after 29 to 34 days of lactate addition. Results imply that neither the founding community nor neutral processes influenced succession following perturbation.
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- Kim M Handley
- Earth & Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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Blackwood CB, Smemo KA, Kershner MW, Feinstein LM, Valverde-Barrantes OJ. Decay of ecosystem differences and decoupling of tree community–soil environment relationships at ecotones. ECOL MONOGR 2013. [DOI: 10.1890/12-1513.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Verbruggen E, van der Heijden MGA, Rillig MC, Kiers ET. Mycorrhizal fungal establishment in agricultural soils: factors determining inoculation success. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2013; 197:1104-9. [PMID: 23495389 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04348.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Soil biota provide a number of key ecological services to natural and agricultural ecosystems. Increasingly, inoculation of soils with beneficial soil biota is being considered as a tool to enhance plant productivity and sustainability of agricultural ecosystems. However, one important bottleneck is the establishment of viable microbial populations that can persist over multiple seasons. Here, we explore the factors responsible for establishment of the beneficial soil fungi, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), which can enhance the yield of a wide range of agricultural crops. We evaluate field application potential and discuss ecological and evolutionary factors responsible for application success. We identify three factors that determine inoculation success and AM fungal persistence in soils: species compatibility (can the introduced species thrive under the imposed circumstances?); field carrying capacity (the habitat niche available to AMF); and priority effects (the influence of timing and competition on the establishment of alternative stable communities). We explore how these factors can be employed for establishment and persistence of AMF. We address the importance of inoculum choice, plant choice, management practices and timing of inoculation for the successful manipulation of the resulting AMF community.
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- Erik Verbruggen
- Plant Ecology, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Caruso T, Rillig MC, Garlaschelli D. On the application of network theory to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi-plant interactions: the importance of basic assumptions. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2012; 194:891-894. [PMID: 22537105 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04163.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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- Tancredi Caruso
- Institut für Biologie, Dahlem Center of Plant Sciences, Plant Ecology, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstraße 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- (Author for correspondence: tel +49 30 838 53172; email )
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- Institut für Biologie, Dahlem Center of Plant Sciences, Plant Ecology, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstraße 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Leiden, Niels Bohrweg 2, NL-2333 CA Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Maarja Öpik
- Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, 40 Lai St, 51005 Tartu, Estonia
- (Author for correspondence: tel +37 27 376 224; email )
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- Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, 40 Lai St, 51005 Tartu, Estonia
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