Spatial vs. temporal controls over soil fungal community similarity at continental and global scales.

ABSTRACT: Large-scale environmental sequencing efforts have transformed our understanding of the spatial controls over soil microbial community composition and turnover. Yet, our knowledge of temporal controls is comparatively limited. This is a major uncertainty in microbial ecology, as there is increasing evidence that microbial community composition is important for predicting microbial community function in the future. Here, we use continental- and global-scale soil fungal community surveys, focused within northern temperate latitudes, to estimate the relative contribution of time and space to soil fungal community turnover. We detected large intra-annual temporal differences in soil fungal community similarity, where fungal communities differed most among seasons, equivalent to the community tu

SUBMITTER: Averill C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6776031 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature