Vegetation type determines spore deposition within a forest-agricultural mosaic landscape.

ABSTRACT: Predicting fungal community assembly is partly limited by our understanding of the factors driving the composition of deposited spores. We studied the relative contribution of vegetation, geographical distance, seasonality and weather to fungal spore deposition across three vegetation types. Active and passive spore traps were established in agricultural fields, deciduous forests and coniferous forests across a geographic gradient of ∼600 km. Active traps captured the spore community suspended in air, reflecting the potential deposition, whereas passive traps reflected realized deposition. Fungal species were identified by metabarcoding of the ITS2 region. The composition of spore communities captured by passive traps differed more between vegetation types than across regions separated by

SUBMITTER: Redondo MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7239601 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature