Late Quaternary climate change explains soil fungal community composition rather than fungal richness in forest ecosystems.

ABSTRACT: The dramatic climate fluctuations of the late Quaternary have influenced the diversity and composition of macroorganism communities, but how they structure belowground microbial communities is less well known. Fungi constitute an important component of soil microorganism communities. They play an important role in biodiversity maintenance, community assembly, and ecosystem functioning, and differ from many macroorganisms in many traits. Here, we examined soil fungal communities in Chinese temperate, subtropical, and tropic forests using Illumina MiSeq sequencing of the fungal ITS1 region. The relative effect of late Quaternary climate change and contemporary environment (plant, soil, current climate, and geographic distance) on the soil fungal community was analyzed. The richness of the to

SUBMITTER: Ji NN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6580281 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature