Scale dependency of ectomycorrhizal fungal community assembly processes in Mediterranean mixed forests.

ABSTRACT: The assembly of biological communities depends on deterministic and stochastic processes whose influence varies across spatial and temporal scales. Although ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi play a key role in forest ecosystems, our knowledge on ECM community assembly processes and their dependency on spatial scales is still scarce. We analysed the assembly processes operating on ECM fungal communities associated with Cistus albidus L. and Quercus spp. in Mediterranean mixed forests (Southern Spain), for which root tip ECM fungi were characterized by high-throughput sequencing. The relative contribution of deterministic and stochastic processes that govern the ECM fungal community assembly was inferred by using phylogenetic and compositional turnover descriptors across spatial scales. Our result

SUBMITTER: J PR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9184349 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature