Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Publications
Campus Units
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
11-13-2019
Journal or Book Title
Nature Communications
Volume
10
Issue
1
First Page
5142
DOI
10.1038/s41467-019-13164-8
Abstract
The evolutionary and environmental factors that shape fungal biogeography are incompletely understood. Here, we assemble a large dataset consisting of previously generated mycobiome data linked to specific geographical locations across the world. We use this dataset to describe the distribution of fungal taxa and to look for correlations with different environmental factors such as climate, soil and vegetation variables. Our meta-study identifies climate as an important driver of different aspects of fungal biogeography, including the global distribution of common fungi as well as the composition and diversity of fungal communities. In our analysis, fungal diversity is concentrated at high latitudes, in contrast with the opposite pattern previously shown for plants and other organisms. Mycorrhizal fungi appear to have narrower climatic tolerances than pathogenic fungi. We speculate that climate change could affect ecosystem functioning because of the narrow climatic tolerances of key fungal taxa.
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Copyright Date
2019
Language
en
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application/pdf
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Větrovský, Tomáš; Kohout, Petr; Kopecký, Martin; Machac, Antonin; Man, Matěj; Bahnmann, Barbara Doreen; Brabcová, Vendula; Choi, Jinlyung; Meszárošová, Lenka; Human, Zander Rainier; Lepinay, Clémentine; Lladó, Salvador; López-Mondéjar, Rubén; Martinović, Tijana; Mašínová, Tereza; Morais, Daniel; Navrátilová, Diana; Odriozola, Iñaki; Štursová, Martina; Švec, Karel; Tláskal, Vojtěch; Urbanová, Michaela; Wan, Joe; Žifčáková, Lucia; Howe, Adina; Ladau, Joshua; Peay, Kabir Gabriel; Storch, David; Wild, Jan; and Baldrian, Petr, "A meta-analysis of global fungal distribution reveals climate-driven patterns" (2019). Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Publications. 1094.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/abe_eng_pubs/1094
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This article is published as Větrovský, Tomáš, Petr Kohout, Martin Kopecký, Antonin Machac, Matěj Man, Barbara Doreen Bahnmann, Vendula Brabcová et al. "A meta-analysis of global fungal distribution reveals climate-driven patterns." Nature Communications 10, no. 1 (2019): 1-9. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13164-8. Posted with permission.