Fungal Communities Are Important Determinants of Bacterial Community Composition in Deadwood.

ABSTRACT: Fungal-bacterial interactions play a key role in the functioning of many ecosystems. Thus, understanding their interactive dynamics is of central importance for gaining predictive knowledge on ecosystem functioning. However, it is challenging to disentangle the mechanisms behind species associations from observed co-occurrence patterns, and little is known about the directionality of such interactions. Here, we applied joint species distribution modeling to high-throughput sequencing data on co-occurring fungal and bacterial communities in deadwood to ask whether fungal and bacterial co-occurrences result from shared habitat use (i.e., deadwood's properties) or whether there are fungal-bacterial interactive associations after habitat characteristics are taken into account. Moreover, we tes

SUBMITTER: Odriozola I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7786133 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature