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Bail J, Gomez JAM, de Oliveira Vaz GC, de Castro WAC, Bonugli-Santos RC. Structural and functional changes in the fungal community of plant detritus in an invaded Atlantic Forest. BMC Microbiol 2022; 22:10. [PMID: 34986801 PMCID: PMC8729104 DOI: 10.1186/s12866-021-02431-8] [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: 06/25/2021] [Accepted: 12/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Changes in the fungal community in the litter decomposition by invasive plants can negatively impact nutrient cycling in natural ecosystems. One still does not know the dimension of this hypothesis, but apparently, it is not despicable. This study evaluated the assemblage composition of fungi during litter decomposition in areas of Atlantic Forest invaded or not invaded by Tradescantia zebrina using Illumina MiSeq and metabarcoding analysis. RESULTS The invaded sample showed significantly higher richness and a difference in the species dominance than the invaded litter. Ascomycota was the first most abundant phylum in both areas. Even so, the dissimilarity between areas can be evidenced. The fungal from Basidiomycota were very representative in the non-invaded areas (ranged from an abundance of 43.29% in the non-invaded to 2.35% in the invaded sample). The genus Lepiota can indicate the primary functional group related to biomass degradation and showed the might difference about the invaded areas due to its essential reduction by the invader. In the invaded sample, there was a total absence of the endophyte-undefined saprotroph guild. Also, some genera not taxonomically characterized were eliminated in the invaded sample, revealing that the fungal biodiversity of areas has not yet been thoroughly characterized. CONCLUSIONS Hence, makes impossible the real interpretation of the invasive plant impact, showing the importance of continuing research on fungal biodiversity. It is important to emphasize that the replacement of the native species by T. zebrina may be responsible for the elimination of fungal groups that have not yet been identified.
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- Jaqueline Bail
- Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA), Institute Latin American of Nature and Life Sciences (ILACNV), Interdisciplinary Center of Life Sciences (CICV), 1000 Tarquínio Joslin dos Santos Av., Jardim Universitário, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, 85870-901, Brazil
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- Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA), Institute Latin American of Nature and Life Sciences (ILACNV), Interdisciplinary Center of Life Sciences (CICV), 1000 Tarquínio Joslin dos Santos Av., Jardim Universitário, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, 85870-901, Brazil
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- Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA), Institute Latin American of Nature and Life Sciences (ILACNV), Interdisciplinary Center of Life Sciences (CICV), 1000 Tarquínio Joslin dos Santos Av., Jardim Universitário, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, 85870-901, Brazil
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- Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA), Institute Latin American of Nature and Life Sciences (ILACNV), Interdisciplinary Center of Life Sciences (CICV), 1000 Tarquínio Joslin dos Santos Av., Jardim Universitário, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, 85870-901, Brazil
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- Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA), Institute Latin American of Nature and Life Sciences (ILACNV), Interdisciplinary Center of Life Sciences (CICV), 1000 Tarquínio Joslin dos Santos Av., Jardim Universitário, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, 85870-901, Brazil.
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Bail J, Gomez JAM, de Oliveira Vaz GC, de Castro WAC, Bonugli-Santos RC. Structural and functional changes in the fungal community of plant detritus in an invaded Atlantic Forest. BMC Microbiol 2022. [PMID: 34986801 DOI: 10.1186/s12866-021-02431-859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/11/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Changes in the fungal community in the litter decomposition by invasive plants can negatively impact nutrient cycling in natural ecosystems. One still does not know the dimension of this hypothesis, but apparently, it is not despicable. This study evaluated the assemblage composition of fungi during litter decomposition in areas of Atlantic Forest invaded or not invaded by Tradescantia zebrina using Illumina MiSeq and metabarcoding analysis. RESULTS The invaded sample showed significantly higher richness and a difference in the species dominance than the invaded litter. Ascomycota was the first most abundant phylum in both areas. Even so, the dissimilarity between areas can be evidenced. The fungal from Basidiomycota were very representative in the non-invaded areas (ranged from an abundance of 43.29% in the non-invaded to 2.35% in the invaded sample). The genus Lepiota can indicate the primary functional group related to biomass degradation and showed the might difference about the invaded areas due to its essential reduction by the invader. In the invaded sample, there was a total absence of the endophyte-undefined saprotroph guild. Also, some genera not taxonomically characterized were eliminated in the invaded sample, revealing that the fungal biodiversity of areas has not yet been thoroughly characterized. CONCLUSIONS Hence, makes impossible the real interpretation of the invasive plant impact, showing the importance of continuing research on fungal biodiversity. It is important to emphasize that the replacement of the native species by T. zebrina may be responsible for the elimination of fungal groups that have not yet been identified.
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- Jaqueline Bail
- Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA), Institute Latin American of Nature and Life Sciences (ILACNV), Interdisciplinary Center of Life Sciences (CICV), 1000 Tarquínio Joslin dos Santos Av., Jardim Universitário, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, 85870-901, Brazil
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- Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA), Institute Latin American of Nature and Life Sciences (ILACNV), Interdisciplinary Center of Life Sciences (CICV), 1000 Tarquínio Joslin dos Santos Av., Jardim Universitário, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, 85870-901, Brazil
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- Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA), Institute Latin American of Nature and Life Sciences (ILACNV), Interdisciplinary Center of Life Sciences (CICV), 1000 Tarquínio Joslin dos Santos Av., Jardim Universitário, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, 85870-901, Brazil
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- Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA), Institute Latin American of Nature and Life Sciences (ILACNV), Interdisciplinary Center of Life Sciences (CICV), 1000 Tarquínio Joslin dos Santos Av., Jardim Universitário, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, 85870-901, Brazil
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- Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA), Institute Latin American of Nature and Life Sciences (ILACNV), Interdisciplinary Center of Life Sciences (CICV), 1000 Tarquínio Joslin dos Santos Av., Jardim Universitário, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, 85870-901, Brazil.
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Miyauchi S, Hage H, Drula E, Lesage-Meessen L, Berrin JG, Navarro D, Favel A, Chaduli D, Grisel S, Haon M, Piumi F, Levasseur A, Lomascolo A, Ahrendt S, Barry K, LaButti KM, Chevret D, Daum C, Mariette J, Klopp C, Cullen D, de Vries RP, Gathman AC, Hainaut M, Henrissat B, Hildén KS, Kües U, Lilly W, Lipzen A, Mäkelä MR, Martinez AT, Morel-Rouhier M, Morin E, Pangilinan J, Ram AFJ, Wösten HAB, Ruiz-Dueñas FJ, Riley R, Record E, Grigoriev IV, Rosso MN. Conserved white-rot enzymatic mechanism for wood decay in the Basidiomycota genus Pycnoporus. DNA Res 2021; 27:5856740. [PMID: 32531032 PMCID: PMC7406137 DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsaa011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2020] [Accepted: 06/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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White-rot (WR) fungi are pivotal decomposers of dead organic matter in forest ecosystems and typically use a large array of hydrolytic and oxidative enzymes to deconstruct lignocellulose. However, the extent of lignin and cellulose degradation may vary between species and wood type. Here, we combined comparative genomics, transcriptomics and secretome proteomics to identify conserved enzymatic signatures at the onset of wood-decaying activity within the Basidiomycota genus Pycnoporus. We observed a strong conservation in the genome structures and the repertoires of protein-coding genes across the four Pycnoporus species described to date, despite the species having distinct geographic distributions. We further analysed the early response of P. cinnabarinus, P. coccineus and P. sanguineus to diverse (ligno)-cellulosic substrates. We identified a conserved set of enzymes mobilized by the three species for breaking down cellulose, hemicellulose and pectin. The co-occurrence in the exo-proteomes of H2O2-producing enzymes with H2O2-consuming enzymes was a common feature of the three species, although each enzymatic partner displayed independent transcriptional regulation. Finally, cellobiose dehydrogenase-coding genes were systematically co-regulated with at least one AA9 lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase gene, indicative of enzymatic synergy in vivo. This study highlights a conserved core white-rot fungal enzymatic mechanism behind the wood-decaying process.
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- Shingo Miyauchi
- INRAE, UMR1163, Biodiversity and Biotechnology of Fungi, Aix Marseille University, 13009 Marseille, France.,INRAE, UMR1136, Interactions Arbres/Microorganismes, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
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- INRAE, UMR1163, Biodiversity and Biotechnology of Fungi, Aix Marseille University, 13009 Marseille, France
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- INRAE, UMR1163, Biodiversity and Biotechnology of Fungi, Aix Marseille University, 13009 Marseille, France
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- INRAE, UMR1163, Biodiversity and Biotechnology of Fungi, Aix Marseille University, 13009 Marseille, France.,INRAE, CIRM-CF, UMR1163, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France
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- INRAE, UMR1163, Biodiversity and Biotechnology of Fungi, Aix Marseille University, 13009 Marseille, France
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- INRAE, UMR1163, Biodiversity and Biotechnology of Fungi, Aix Marseille University, 13009 Marseille, France.,INRAE, CIRM-CF, UMR1163, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France
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- INRAE, UMR1163, Biodiversity and Biotechnology of Fungi, Aix Marseille University, 13009 Marseille, France.,INRAE, CIRM-CF, UMR1163, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France
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- INRAE, UMR1163, Biodiversity and Biotechnology of Fungi, Aix Marseille University, 13009 Marseille, France.,INRAE, CIRM-CF, UMR1163, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France
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- INRAE, UMR1163, Biodiversity and Biotechnology of Fungi, Aix Marseille University, 13009 Marseille, France
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- INRAE, UMR1163, Biodiversity and Biotechnology of Fungi, Aix Marseille University, 13009 Marseille, France
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- INRAE, UMR1163, Biodiversity and Biotechnology of Fungi, Aix Marseille University, 13009 Marseille, France
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- INRAE, UMR1163, Biodiversity and Biotechnology of Fungi, Aix Marseille University, 13009 Marseille, France
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- US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
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- US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
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- US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
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- INRAE, UMR1319, Micalis, Plateforme d'Analyse Protéomique de Paris Sud-Ouest, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
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- INRAE, Genotoul Bioinfo, UR875, Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées de Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- INRAE, Genotoul Bioinfo, UR875, Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées de Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Fungal Physiology, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute and Fungal Molecular Physiology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.,Department of Microbiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biology, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MI, USA
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- CNRS, UMR7257, AFMB, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France.,INRAE, USC1408, AFMB, Marseille, France
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- CNRS, UMR7257, AFMB, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France.,INRAE, USC1408, AFMB, Marseille, France
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- Department of Molecular Wood Biotechnology and Technical Mycology, Büsgen-Institute, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.,Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MI, USA
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- US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- INRAE, UMR1136, Interactions Arbres/Microorganismes, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
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- INRAE, UMR1136, Interactions Arbres/Microorganismes, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
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- US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
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- Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Microbiology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
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- INRAE, UMR1163, Biodiversity and Biotechnology of Fungi, Aix Marseille University, 13009 Marseille, France
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- US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA.,Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- INRAE, UMR1163, Biodiversity and Biotechnology of Fungi, Aix Marseille University, 13009 Marseille, France
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Decay stages of wood and associated fungal communities characterise diversity-decomposition relationships. Sci Rep 2021; 11:8972. [PMID: 33903719 PMCID: PMC8076174 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-88580-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2020] [Accepted: 04/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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The biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship is a central topic in ecology. Fungi are the dominant decomposers of organic plant material in terrestrial ecosystems and display tremendous species diversity. However, little is known about the fungal diversity–decomposition relationship. We evaluated fungal community assemblies and substrate quality in different stages of wood decay to assess the relationships between fungal species richness and weight loss of wood substrate under laboratory conditions. Wood-inhabiting fungal communities in the early and late stages of pine log decomposition were used as a model. Colonisation with certain species prior to inoculation with other species resulted in four-fold differences in fungal species richness and up to tenfold differences in the rate of wood substrate decomposition in both early- and late-decaying fungal communities. Differences in wood substrate quality had a significant impact on species richness and weight loss of wood and the relationships between the two, which were negative or neutral. Late communities showed significantly negative species richness–decay relationships in wood at all decay stages, whereas negative relationships in early communities were significant only in the intermediate decay stage. Our results suggest that changes in fungal communities and wood quality during wood decomposition affect the fungal diversity–decomposition relationship.
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Evolution of Fungal Carbohydrate-Active Enzyme Portfolios and Adaptation to Plant Cell-Wall Polymers. J Fungi (Basel) 2021; 7:jof7030185. [PMID: 33807546 PMCID: PMC7998857 DOI: 10.3390/jof7030185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2021] [Revised: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The postindustrial era is currently facing two ecological challenges. First, the rise in global temperature, mostly caused by the accumulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, and second, the inability of the environment to absorb the waste of human activities. Fungi are valuable levers for both a reduction in CO2 emissions, and the improvement of a circular economy with the optimized valorization of plant waste and biomass. Soil fungi may promote plant growth and thereby increase CO2 assimilation via photosynthesis or, conversely, they may prompt the decomposition of dead organic matter, and thereby contribute to CO2 emissions. The strategies that fungi use to cope with plant-cell-wall polymers and access the saccharides that they use as a carbon source largely rely on the secretion of carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes). In the past few years, comparative genomics and phylogenomics coupled with the functional characterization of CAZymes significantly improved the understanding of their evolution in fungal genomes, providing a framework for the design of nature-inspired enzymatic catalysts. Here, we provide an overview of the diversity of CAZyme enzymatic systems employed by fungi that exhibit different substrate preferences, different ecologies, or belong to different taxonomical groups for lignocellulose degradation.
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Muszynski S, Maurer F, Henjes S, Horn MA, Noll M. Fungal and Bacterial Diversity Patterns of Two Diversity Levels Retrieved From a Late Decaying Fagus sylvatica Under Two Temperature Regimes. Front Microbiol 2021; 11:548793. [PMID: 33584553 PMCID: PMC7874115 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.548793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2020] [Accepted: 11/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Environmental fluctuations are a common occurrence in an ecosystem, which have an impact on organismic diversity and associated ecosystem services. The aim of this study was to investigate how a natural and a species richness-reduced wood decaying community diversity were capable of decomposing Fagus sylvatica dead wood under a constant and a fluctuating temperature regime. Therefore, microcosms with both diversity levels (natural and species richness-reduced) were prepared and incubated for 8 weeks under both temperature regimes. Relative wood mass loss, wood pH, carbon dioxide, and methane emissions, as well as fungal and bacterial community compositions in terms of Simpson‘s diversity, richness and evenness were investigated. Community interaction patterns and co-occurrence networks were calculated. Community composition was affected by temperature regime and natural diversity caused significantly higher mass loss than richness-reduced diversity. In contrast, richness-reduced diversity increased wood pH. The bacterial community composition was less affected by richness reduction and temperature regimes than the fungal community composition. Microbial interaction patterns showed more mutual exclusions in richness-reduced compared to natural diversity as the reduction mainly reduced abundant fungal species and disintegrated previous interaction patterns. Microbial communities reassembled in richness-reduced diversity with a focus on nitrate reducing and dinitrogen-fixing bacteria as connectors in the network, indicating their high relevance to reestablish ecosystem functions. Therefore, a stochastic richness reduction was followed by functional trait based reassembly to recover previous ecosystem productivity.
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- Sarah Muszynski
- Department of Applied Science, Institute of Bioanalysis, University of Coburg, Coburg, Germany
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- Department of Applied Science, Institute of Bioanalysis, University of Coburg, Coburg, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology, Leibniz University of Hannover, Hanover, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology, Leibniz University of Hannover, Hanover, Germany
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- Department of Applied Science, Institute of Bioanalysis, University of Coburg, Coburg, Germany
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Boué C, DeBellis T, Venier LA, Work TT, Kembel SW. Limited initial impacts of biomass harvesting on composition of wood-inhabiting fungi within residual stumps. PeerJ 2019; 7:e8027. [PMID: 31844564 PMCID: PMC6913257 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8027] [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: 08/06/2019] [Accepted: 10/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Growing pressures linked to global warming are prompting governments to put policies in place to find alternatives to fossil fuels. In this study, we compared the impact of tree-length harvesting to more intensive full-tree harvesting on the composition of fungi residing in residual stumps 5 years after harvest. In the tree-length treatment, a larger amount of residual material was left around the residual stumps in contrast to the full-tree treatment where a large amount of woody debris was removed. We collected sawdust from five randomly selected residual stumps in five blocks in each of the tree-length and full-tree treatments, yielding a total of 50 samples (25 in each treatment). We characterized the fungal operational taxonomic units (OTUs) present in each stump using high-throughput DNA sequencing of the fungal ITS region. We observed no differences in Shannon diversity between tree-length and full-tree harvesting. Likewise, we observed few differences in the composition of fungal OTUs among tree-length and full-tree samples using non-metric multidimensional scaling. Using the differential abundance analysis implemented with DESeq2, we did, however, detect several associations between specific fungal taxa and the intensity of residual biomass harvest. For example, Peniophorella pallida (Bres.) KH Larss. and Tephromela sp. were found mainly in the full-tree treatment, while Phlebia livida (Pers.) Bres. and Cladophialophora chaetospira (Grove) Crous & Arzanlou were found mainly in the tree-length treatment. While none of the 20 most abundant species in our study were identified as pathogens we did identify one conifer pathogen species Serpula himantioides (Fr.) P. Karst found mainly in the full-tree treatment.
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- Cédric Boué
- Département des Sciences Biologiques, University of Québec at Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.,Department of Biology, Dawson College, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste Marie, ON, Canada
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- Département des Sciences Biologiques, University of Québec at Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Département des Sciences Biologiques, University of Québec at Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Purahong W, Kahl T, Krüger D, Buscot F, Hoppe B. Home-Field Advantage in Wood Decomposition Is Mainly Mediated by Fungal Community Shifts at "Home" Versus "Away". MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2019; 78:725-736. [PMID: 30761423 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-019-01334-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2018] [Accepted: 01/17/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The home-field advantage (HFA) hypothesis has been used intensively to study leaf litter decomposition in various ecosystems. However, the HFA in woody substrates is still unexplored. Here, we reanalyzed and integrated existing datasets on various groups of microorganisms collected from natural deadwood of two temperate trees, Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies, from forests in which one or other of these species dominates but where both are present. Our aims were (i) to test the HFA hypothesis on wood decomposition rates of these two temperate tree species, and (ii) to investigate if HFA hypothesis can be explained by diversity and community composition of bacteria and in detail N-fixing bacteria (as determined by molecular 16S rRNA and nifH gene amplification) and fungi (as determined by molecular ITS rRNA amplification and sporocarp surveys). Our results showed that wood decomposition rates were accelerated at "home" versus "away" by 38.19% ± 20.04% (mean ± SE). We detected strong changes in fungal richness (increase 36-50%) and community composition (RANOSIM = 0.52-0.60, P < 0.05) according to HFA hypothesis. The changes of fungi were much stronger than for total bacteria and nitrogen fixing for both at richness and community composition levels. In conclusion, our results support the HFA hypothesis in deadwood: decomposition rate is accelerated at home due to specialization of fungal communities produced by the plant community above them. Furthermore, the higher richness of fungal sporocarps and nitrogen-fixing bacteria (nifH) may stimulate or at least stabilize wood decomposition rates at "home" versus "away."
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- Witoon Purahong
- UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Soil Ecology, Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany.
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- Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Chair of Silviculture, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacherstr. 4, 79085, Freiburg i. Brsg., Germany
- UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Thuringian Forest, Brunnenstr. 1, 98711, Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig, Germany
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- UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Soil Ecology, Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Soil Ecology, Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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- UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Soil Ecology, Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany.
- Julius Kühn-Institute, Institute for National and International Plant Health, Messeweg 11/12, 38104, Braunschweig, Germany.
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Rinne‐Garmston KT, Peltoniemi K, Chen J, Peltoniemi M, Fritze H, Mäkipää R. Carbon flux from decomposing wood and its dependency on temperature, wood N 2 fixation rate, moisture and fungal composition in a Norway spruce forest. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2019; 25:1852-1867. [PMID: 30767385 PMCID: PMC6849867 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2018] [Accepted: 01/21/2019] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Globally 40-70 Pg of carbon (C) are stored in coarse woody debris on the forest floor. Climate change may reduce the function of this stock as a C sink in the future due to increasing temperature. However, current knowledge on the drivers of wood decomposition is inadequate for detailed predictions. To define the factors that control wood respiration rate of Norway spruce and to produce a model that adequately describes the decomposition process of this species as a function of time, we used an unprecedentedly diverse analytical approach, which included measurements of respiration, fungal community sequencing, N2 fixation rate, nifH copy number, 14 C-dating as well as N%, δ13 C and C% values of wood. Our results suggest that climate change will accelerate C flux from deadwood in boreal conditions, due to the observed strong temperature dependency of deadwood respiration. At the research site, the annual C flux from deadwood would increase by 27% from the current 117 g C/kg wood with the projected climate warming (RCP4.5). The second most important control on respiration rate was the stage of wood decomposition; at early stages of decomposition low nitrogen content and low wood moisture limited fungal activity while reduced wood resource quality decreased the respiration rate at the final stages of decomposition. Wood decomposition process was best described by a Sigmoidal model, where after 116 years of wood decomposition mass loss of 95% was reached. Our results on deadwood decomposition are important for C budget calculations in ecosystem and climate change models. We observed for the first time that the temperature dependency of N2 fixation, which has a major role at providing N for wood-inhabiting fungi, was not constant but varied between wood density classes due to source supply and wood quality. This has significant consequences on projecting N2 fixation rates for deadwood in changing climate.
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)HelsinkiFinland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)HelsinkiFinland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)HelsinkiFinland
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Kazartsev I, Shorohova E, Kapitsa E, Kushnevskaya H. Decaying Picea abies log bark hosts diverse fungal communities. FUNGAL ECOL 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2017.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Mäkipää R, Rajala T, Schigel D, Rinne KT, Pennanen T, Abrego N, Ovaskainen O. Interactions between soil- and dead wood-inhabiting fungal communities during the decay of Norway spruce logs. THE ISME JOURNAL 2017; 11:1964-1974. [PMID: 28430188 PMCID: PMC5563949 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2017.57] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2016] [Revised: 02/18/2017] [Accepted: 03/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
We investigated the interaction between fungal communities of soil and dead wood substrates. For this, we applied molecular species identification and stable isotope tracking to both soil and decaying wood in an unmanaged boreal Norway spruce-dominated stand. Altogether, we recorded 1990 operational taxonomic units, out of which more than 600 were shared by both substrates and 589 were found to exclusively inhabit wood. On average the soil was more species-rich than the decaying wood, but the species richness in dead wood increased monotonically along the decay gradient, reaching the same species richness and community composition as soil in the late stages. Decaying logs at all decay stages locally influenced the fungal communities from soil, some fungal species occurring in soil only under decaying wood. Stable isotope analyses suggest that mycorrhizal species colonising dead wood in the late decay stages actively transfer nitrogen and carbon between soil and host plants. Most importantly, Piloderma sphaerosporum and Tylospora sp. mycorrhizal species were highly abundant in decayed wood. Soil- and wood-inhabiting fungal communities interact at all decay phases of wood that has important implications in fungal community dynamics and thus nutrient transportation.
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- Raisa Mäkipää
- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Helsinki, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Helsinki, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biology, Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Biology, Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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Yang C, Schaefer DA, Liu W, Popescu VD, Yang C, Wang X, Wu C, Yu DW. Higher fungal diversity is correlated with lower CO2 emissions from dead wood in a natural forest. Sci Rep 2016; 6:31066. [PMID: 27553882 PMCID: PMC4995510 DOI: 10.1038/srep31066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2015] [Accepted: 07/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Wood decomposition releases almost as much CO2 to the atmosphere as does fossil-fuel combustion, so the factors regulating wood decomposition can affect global carbon cycling. We used metabarcoding to estimate the fungal species diversities of naturally colonized decomposing wood in subtropical China and, for the first time, compared them to concurrent measures of CO2 emissions. Wood hosting more diverse fungal communities emitted less CO2, with Shannon diversity explaining 26 to 44% of emissions variation. Community analysis supports a ‘pure diversity’ effect of fungi on decomposition rates and thus suggests that interference competition is an underlying mechanism. Our findings extend the results of published experiments using low-diversity, laboratory-inoculated wood to a high-diversity, natural system. We hypothesize that high levels of saprotrophic fungal biodiversity could be providing globally important ecosystem services by maintaining dead-wood habitats and by slowing the atmospheric contribution of CO2 from the world’s stock of decomposing wood. However, large-scale surveys and controlled experimental tests in natural settings will be needed to test this hypothesis.
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- Chunyan Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiaochang East Rd., Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China
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- Ohio University, Department of Biological Sciences, 107 Irvine Hall, Athens OH, 45701, USA.,University of Bucharest, Centre for Environmental Research (CCMESI), 1 N Balcescu Blvd., Bucharest, Romania
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiaochang East Rd., Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiaochang East Rd., Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiaochang East Rd., Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiaochang East Rd., Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China.,School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk NR47TJ, UK
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Bernhard AE, Kelly JJ. Addendum: Editorial: Linking Ecosystem Function to Microbial Diversity. Front Microbiol 2016. [PMCID: PMC4992674 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- Anne E. Bernhard
- Biology Department, Connecticut CollegeNew London, CT, USA
- *Correspondence: Anne E. Bernhard
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- Biology Department, Loyola University ChicagoChicago, IL, USA
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Drivers of CO2 Emission Rates from Dead Wood Logs of 13 Tree Species in the Initial Decomposition Phase. FORESTS 2015. [DOI: 10.3390/f6072484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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