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Camenzind, T.* ; Aguilar-Trigueros, C.A.* ; Hempel, S.* ; Lehmann, A.* ; Bielcik, M.* ; Andrade Linares, D.R. ; Bergmann, J.* ; Dela Cruz, J.* ; Gawronski, J.* ; Golubeva, P.* ; Haslwimmer, H.* ; Lartey, L.* ; Leifheit, E.* ; Maas, S.* ; Marhan, S.* ; Pinek, L.* ; Powell, J.R.* ; Roy, J.* ; Veresoglou, S.D.* ; Wang, D.* ; Wulf, A.* ; Zheng, W.* ; Rillig, M.C.*

Towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi.

Nat. Commun. 15:3321 (2024)
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Trait-based frameworks are promising tools to understand the functional consequences of community shifts in response to environmental change. The applicability of these tools to soil microbes is limited by a lack of functional trait data and a focus on categorical traits. To address this gap for an important group of soil microorganisms, we identify trade-offs underlying a fungal economics spectrum based on a large trait collection in 28 saprobic fungal isolates, derived from a common grassland soil and grown in culture plates. In this dataset, ecologically relevant trait variation is best captured by a three-dimensional fungal economics space. The primary explanatory axis represents a dense-fast continuum, resembling dominant life-history trade-offs in other taxa. A second significant axis reflects mycelial flexibility, and a third one carbon acquisition traits. All three axes correlate with traits involved in soil carbon cycling. Since stress tolerance and fundamental niche gradients are primarily related to the dense-fast continuum, traits of the 2nd (carbon-use efficiency) and especially the 3rd (decomposition) orthogonal axes are independent of tested environmental stressors. These findings suggest a fungal economics space which can now be tested at broader scales.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
Keywords Community Ecology; Functional Traits; Plant Ecology; Strategies; History; Redundancy; Dynamics; Melanin; Niche; Biota
Language english
Publication Year 2024
HGF-reported in Year 2024
ISSN (print) / ISBN 2041-1723
e-ISSN 2041-1723
Quellenangaben Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: , Article Number: 3321 Supplement: ,
Publisher Nature Publishing Group
Publishing Place London
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
POF-Topic(s) 30202 - Environmental Health
Research field(s) Environmental Sciences
PSP Element(s) G-504700-001
Grants ERC Advanced Grant
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Scopus ID 85190714567
PubMed ID 38637578
Erfassungsdatum 2024-06-05