Journal
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 13, Pages 3127-3129Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12805
Keywords
climate change; community ecology; environmental DNA; fungi
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Fungi are very abundant and functionally pivotal in Arctic terrestrial ecosystems. Yet, our understanding of their community composition, diversity and particularly their environmental drivers is superficial at the very best. In this issue of Molecular Ecology, Timling etal. () describe perhaps one of the most comprehensive and geographically ambitious molecular studies on Arctic fungal communities to date. The results highlight the potential sensitivity of the fungal communities to plant communities, environmental conditions and therefore to environmental change. Thus, these studies lay a foundation to educated speculation on the fungal community migration northwards as a result of predicted climate change.
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