Journal
FUNGAL ECOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages 10-13Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2014.05.002
Keywords
Community ecology; Ecological networks; Functional traits; Mutualistic networks; Mycorrhizas; Null models; Specialization; Symbioses
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Next-generation sequencing technologies are providing us with new opportunities to characterize plant fungal communities in more depth and with better replication than ever before. The application of network concepts and numerical tools to analyze those extensive data sets is also rapidly increasing. Here we show, however, that network-based tools will further advance our understanding of the ecology of plant fungal symbioses if (1) researchers characterize both the interaction patterns among species, and investigate the likely biotic and abiotic drivers of such interactions (e.g. species' abundance, functional traits, environmental conditions) and (2) researchers make sure that the assumptions made by their network-based numerical tools are met by their data sets.
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