Rare Taxa Drive the Response of Soil Fungal Guilds to Soil Salinization in the Taklamakan Desert.

ABSTRACT: Salinization poses great threats to soil fungal communities that would cause the losses of ecosystems services. Soil fungal communities are composed of different functional guilds such as saprotrophic, symbiotrophic, and pathotrophic fungi, and each guild includes many rare taxa and a few abundant taxa. Despite of low abundance, rare taxa may be crucial in determining the responses of entire soil fungal communities to salinization. However, it remains poorly understood how rare taxa mediate the impacts of soil salinization on soil fungal community structure. Here, we took advantage of a salinity gradient in a desert ecosystem ranging from 0.60 to 31.09 g kg^-1 that was created by a 12-year saline-water irrigation and assessed how the rare vs. abundant taxa of soil saprotrophic, s

SUBMITTER: Lin L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9168468 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature