Tracking fungal species-level responses in soil environments exposed to long-term warming and associated drying.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is affecting fungal communities and their function in terrestrial ecosystems. Despite making progress in the understanding of how the fungal community responds to global change drivers in natural ecosystems, little is known on how fungi respond at the species level. Understanding how fungal species respond to global change drivers, such as warming, is critical, as it could reveal adaptation pathways to help us to better understand ecosystem functioning in response to global change. Here, we present a model study to track species-level responses of fungi to warming-and associated drying-in a decade-long global change field experiment; we focused on two free-living saprotrophic fungi which were found in high abundance in our site, Mortierella and Penicillium. Using microbiolog

SUBMITTER: Romero-Olivares AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10748604 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature