Spatio-temporal variation of core and satellite arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus communities in Miscanthus giganteus
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are a group of obligate plant symbionts which can promote plant nutrition. AMF communities are diverse, but the factors which control their assembly in space and time remain unclear. In this study, the contributions of geographical distance, environmental heteroge...
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| author | Christopher James Barnes Christopher James Barnes Caitlin Ann Burns Christopher John van der Gast Niall McNamara Gary D Bending |
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| description | Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are a group of obligate plant symbionts which can promote plant nutrition. AMF communities are diverse, but the factors which control their assembly in space and time remain unclear. In this study, the contributions of geographical distance, environmental heterogeneity and time to shaping AMF communities associated with Miscanthus giganteus were determined over a 13 month period. In particular, the community was partitioned into core (abundant and persistent taxa) and satellite (taxa with low abundance and persistence) constituents and the drivers of community assembly for each determined. We show that AMF richness and community composition changed over time associated with fluctuation within both the core and satellite communities. The degree to which AMF community variation was explained by soil properties was consistently higher in the core community than the combined and satellite communities, suggesting that the satellite community had considerable stochasticity associated with it. We suggest that the partitioning of communities into their core and satellite constituents could be employed to enhance the variation explained within microbial community analyses. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7066a8c941ab45c891c0090e922840bd2022-12-21T18:29:30ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Microbiology1664-302X2016-08-01710.3389/fmicb.2016.01278206887Spatio-temporal variation of core and satellite arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus communities in Miscanthus giganteusChristopher James Barnes0Christopher James Barnes1Caitlin Ann Burns2Christopher John van der Gast3Niall McNamara4Gary D Bending5University of CopenhagenUniversity of WarwickUniversity of WarwickCEH WallingfordCentre for Ecology and HydrologyUniversity of WarwickArbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are a group of obligate plant symbionts which can promote plant nutrition. AMF communities are diverse, but the factors which control their assembly in space and time remain unclear. In this study, the contributions of geographical distance, environmental heterogeneity and time to shaping AMF communities associated with Miscanthus giganteus were determined over a 13 month period. In particular, the community was partitioned into core (abundant and persistent taxa) and satellite (taxa with low abundance and persistence) constituents and the drivers of community assembly for each determined. We show that AMF richness and community composition changed over time associated with fluctuation within both the core and satellite communities. The degree to which AMF community variation was explained by soil properties was consistently higher in the core community than the combined and satellite communities, suggesting that the satellite community had considerable stochasticity associated with it. We suggest that the partitioning of communities into their core and satellite constituents could be employed to enhance the variation explained within microbial community analyses.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01278/fullFungiGlomeromycotaMiscanthusSatelliteCorearbuscular mycorrhizal fungi |
| spellingShingle | Christopher James Barnes Christopher James Barnes Caitlin Ann Burns Christopher John van der Gast Niall McNamara Gary D Bending Spatio-temporal variation of core and satellite arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus communities in Miscanthus giganteus Frontiers in Microbiology Fungi Glomeromycota Miscanthus Satellite Core arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi |
| title | Spatio-temporal variation of core and satellite arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus communities in Miscanthus giganteus |
| title_full | Spatio-temporal variation of core and satellite arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus communities in Miscanthus giganteus |
| title_fullStr | Spatio-temporal variation of core and satellite arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus communities in Miscanthus giganteus |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spatio-temporal variation of core and satellite arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus communities in Miscanthus giganteus |
| title_short | Spatio-temporal variation of core and satellite arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus communities in Miscanthus giganteus |
| title_sort | spatio temporal variation of core and satellite arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus communities in miscanthus giganteus |
| topic | Fungi Glomeromycota Miscanthus Satellite Core arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01278/full |
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