Ecological Succession Pattern of Fungal Community in Soil along a Retreating Glacier.

ABSTRACT: Accelerated by global climate changing, retreating glaciers leave behind soil chronosequences of primary succession. Current knowledge of primary succession is mainly from studies of vegetation dynamics, whereas information about belowground microbes remains unclear. Here, we combined shifts in community assembly processes with microbial primary succession to better understand mechanisms governing the stochastic/deterministic balance. We investigated fungal succession and community assembly via high-throughput sequencing along a well-established glacier forefront chronosequence that spans 2-188 years of deglaciation. Shannon diversity and evenness peaked at a distance of 370 m and declined afterwards. The response of fungal diversity to distance varied in different phyla. Basidiomycota Sha

SUBMITTER: Tian J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5465267 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature