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ISME COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/s43705-021-00015-1
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41907039]
- National Program on Key Basic Research Project [2017YFC0504002]
- NSFC-NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity program [31461123001]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB 15010101]
- Youth Joint Innovation Project of Shaanxi Academy of Sciences [2019K-13]
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Island biogeography theory (IBT) provides a basic framework to explain the diversity of Ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungi, and the diversity-begets-diversity hypothesis within the fungal kingdom is more predictive for EcM fungal diversity within the IBT framework. In the timberline ecosystem, there is a tight association between saprotrophic and EcM fungal lineages, with saprotrophic fungal diversity being the strongest predictor of EcM fungal diversity.
Island biogeography theory (IBT) is one of the most fruitful paradigms in macroecology, positing positive species-area and negative species-isolation relationships for the distribution of organisms. Biotic interactions are also crucial for diversity maintenance on islands. In the context of a timberline tree species (Betula ermanii) as virtual island, we surveyed ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungal diversity along a 430-m vertical gradient on the top of Changbai Mountain, China, sampling fine roots and neighboring soils of B. ermanii. Besides elevation, soil properties and plant functional traits, endophytic and saprotrophic fungal diversity were assessed as candidate predictors to construct integrative models. EcM fungal diversity decreased with increasing elevation, and exhibited positive diversity to diameter at breast height and negative diversity to distance from forest edge relationships in both roots and soils. Integrative models further showed that saprotrophic fungal diversity was the strongest predictor of EcM fungal diversity, directly enhancing EcM fungal diversity in roots and soils. Our study supports IBT as a basic framework to explain EcM fungal diversity. The diversity-begets-diversity hypothesis within the fungal kingdom is more predictive for EcM fungal diversity within the IBT framework, which reveals a tight association between saprotrophic and EcM fungal lineages in the timberline ecosystem.
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