Environment and host as large-scale controls of ectomycorrhizal fungi

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0189-9?platform=hootsuite#Abs1" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0189-9?platform=hootsuite#Abs1</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0312-y" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41586-018-0312-y</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Environment and host as large-scale controls of ectomycorrhizal fungi
Original language description
Explaining the large-scale diversity of soil organisms that drive biogeochemical processes - and their responses to environmental change - is critical. However, identifying consistent drivers of belowground diversity and abundance for some soil organisms at large spatial scales remains problematic. Here we investigate a major guild, the ectomycorrhizal fungi, across European forests at a spatial scale and resolution that is - to our knowledge - unprecedented, to explore key biotic and abiotic predictors of ectomycorrhizal diversity and to identify dominant responses and thresholds for change across complex environmental gradients. We show the effect of 38 host, environment, climate and geographical variables on ectomycorrhizal diversity, and define thresholds of community change for key variables. We quantify host specificity and reveal plasticity in functional traits involved in soil foraging across gradients. We conclude that environmental and host factors explain most of the variation in ectomycorrhizal diversity, that the environmental thresholds used as major ecosystem assessment tools need adjustment and that the importance of belowground specificity and plasticity has previously been underappreciated.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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