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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities of pristine rainforests and adjacent sugarcane fields recruit from different species pools

Journal

SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 167, Issue -, Pages -

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108585

Keywords

Ecological processes; Environmental filtering; Glomeromycotina; Symbiotic fungi; Tropical rainforest; Ecological networks; Dispersal limitation; Community assembly

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  1. European Union's Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship [708530 -DISPMIC]
  2. Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas (CNPq) [446144/2014-2, 307129/2015-2, 306880/2020-2]

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Deforestation and conversion into sugarcane fields in the Atlantic rainforest in Brazil pose a serious threat to local biodiversity, resulting in biotic homogenization. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) exhibit a peak in species richness in transition zones, indicating community mixing across boundaries.
Deforestation of the Atlantic rainforest in Brazil and its conversion into sugarcane fields, pose a serious threat to the local biodiversity. The change in land use affects not only macro-organisms, but also microbial communities such as the obligate symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). We characterized AMF communities along 200-m transects from native forests and into sugarcane fields. Meta-barcoding, and subsequent community and network analyses were used to illustrate the distribution of communities along the transects. Conversion of forest into sugarcane fields did not change alpha diversity, but resulted in a biotic homogenization of the communities. The communities in the sugarcane field was not a subset of the forest community, but recruited taxa from other unsampled species pools. We found a peak in richness in the transition zones which suggests that the AMF community admix across the border. A difference in nestedness and high turnover among transects indicate that forest AMF are locally specialized and have a restricted geographical range.

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