Forest Soil Fungal Community Elevational Distribution Pattern and Their Ecological Assembly Processes.

ABSTRACT: Soil fungi play vital roles in natural ecosystems, however, their community distribution patterns along different environmental gradients and ecological assembly processes remain unclear. In this study, Illumina MiSeq sequencing was used to investigate the soil fungal community structures of five different forest types along an elevational gradient, and a framework based on a null model was adopted to quantify the relative contribution of deterministic and stochastic ecological assembly processes. The results showed that the majority of soil fungal OTUs were derived from Zygomycota, Basidiomycota, and Ascomycota. Soil fungal community structure differed significantly among the five sites (P < 0.01), and the fungal α-diversity decreased as elevation increased (P < 0.01). The n

SUBMITTER: Sheng Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6787267 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature