Saccharomycotina yeasts defy longstanding macroecological patterns.

ABSTRACT: The Saccharomycotina yeasts ("yeasts" hereafter) are a fungal clade of scientific, economic, and medical significance. Yeasts are highly ecologically diverse, found across a broad range of environments in every biome and continent on earth¹; however, little is known about what rules govern the macroecology of yeast species and their range limits in the wild². Here, we trained machine learning models on 12,221 occurrence records and 96 environmental variables to infer global distribution maps for 186 yeast species (~15% of described species from 75% of orders) and to test environmental drivers of yeast biogeography and macroecology. We found that predicted yeast diversity hotspots occur in mixed montane forests in temperate climates. Diversity in vegetation type and to

SUBMITTER: David KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10491267 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature