期刊
FORESTS
卷 13, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/f13081188
关键词
distance decay of similarity; specialists; generalists; FUNGuild; Yunnan; subtropical forest; beta diversity; soil fungal communities
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31570380, 31300358]
- Yunnan Fundamental Research Projects [2015FB185]
- CAS 135 program [2017XTBG-T01]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
Specialists and generalists in fungal communities have different impacts on the distance decay of similarity. Soil fungal co-occurrence networks vary between different fungal guilds, influencing the change in similarity distance decay. However, there are exceptions to these effects within different communities.
Fungi are an important component of microbial communities that serve a variety of important roles in nutrient cycling and are essential for plant nutrient uptake in forest soils. Distance decay of similarity (DDS) is one of the few ubiquitous phenomena in community ecology. However, the contribution of specialist and generalist fungal species in shaping DDS remains poorly investigated. Through removing operational taxonomic units (OTU) with low or high frequencies, we rigorously quantified the impact of specialists or generalists on the change in slope, initial similarity, and halving distance of DDS of undefined saprotroph, plant mutualist, and plant putative pathogen communities in a 20-ha subtropical evergreen forest plot in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. We hypothesized that (1) the soil fungal co-occurrence networks are different between the three fungal guilds; (2) specialists and generalists contribute to the spatial turnover and nestedness of beta diversity, respectively; and (3) the removal of specialists or generalists will have opposite effects on the change of slope, initial similarity, and halving distance of DDS. Co-occurrence network analysis showed that the undefined saprotroph network had a much more complicated structure than mutualist and pathogen networks. Ascomycota and Basidiomycota were the two most abundant phyla in soil fungal communities. We found that partly in line with our expectations, the change in initial similarity increased and decreased when removing specialists and generalists, respectively, but there was always one exception guild of out of the three communities for the change in slope and halving distance. We identified that such change was mainly due to the change in turnover and nestedness of beta diversity. Furthermore, the results show that species turnover rather than species nestedness drove fungal beta diversity across functional guilds for both specialists and generalists.
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