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Towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi

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  • Tessa Camenzind

    (Freie Universität Berlin
    Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB))

  • Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros

    (Western Sydney University
    University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35)

  • Stefan Hempel

    (Freie Universität Berlin
    Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB))

  • Anika Lehmann

    (Freie Universität Berlin
    Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB))

  • Milos Bielcik

    (Freie Universität Berlin
    Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB))

  • Diana R. Andrade-Linares

    (Helmholtz Zentrum München)

  • Joana Bergmann

    (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF))

  • Jeane Cruz

    (Freie Universität Berlin
    Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB))

  • Jessie Gawronski

    (Freie Universität Berlin
    Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB))

  • Polina Golubeva

    (Freie Universität Berlin
    Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB))

  • Heike Haslwimmer

    (University of Hohenheim)

  • Linda Lartey

    (Freie Universität Berlin
    Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB))

  • Eva Leifheit

    (Freie Universität Berlin
    Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB))

  • Stefanie Maaß

    (Freie Universität Berlin
    Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB))

  • Sven Marhan

    (University of Hohenheim)

  • Liliana Pinek

    (Freie Universität Berlin
    Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB))

  • Jeff R. Powell

    (Western Sydney University)

  • Julien Roy

    (Freie Universität Berlin
    Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB))

  • Stavros D. Veresoglou

    (Sun Yat-sen University)

  • Dongwei Wang

    (Freie Universität Berlin
    Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB))

  • Anja Wulf

    (Freie Universität Berlin
    Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB))

  • Weishuang Zheng

    (Peking University Shenzhen Institute)

  • Matthias C. Rillig

    (Freie Universität Berlin
    Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB))

Abstract

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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  • Tessa Camenzind & Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros & Stefan Hempel & Anika Lehmann & Milos Bielcik & Diana R. Andrade-Linares & Joana Bergmann & Jeane Cruz & Jessie Gawronski & Polina Golubeva & Heike Hasl, 2024. "Towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-13, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-47705-7
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47705-7
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