EDNA metabarcoding reveals high soil fungal diversity and variation in community composition among Spanish cliffs.

ABSTRACT: Environments characterized by physical extremes harbor unique species diversity with particular adaptations. Cliffs are harsh environments for organisms but host a great diversity of specialized plants with many endemics, rare and even endangered species. It is, however, less known which fungal diversity the cliff habitats contain and whether it differs among different cliff locations. We thus sampled soil from three separate cliff locations in the North, Centre, and South of Spain and used eDNA metabarcoding to determine fungal diversity. To better understand whether cliff specialist plants may promote particular fungal communities, we have sampled soil from crevices with cliff specialist plants and no apparent plants as controls. Major lifestyles found in cliff soils were saprotrophs, an

SUBMITTER: Krah FS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9745262 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature