Towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi
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 ga...
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| author | Tessa Camenzind Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros Stefan Hempel Anika Lehmann Milos Bielcik Diana R. Andrade-Linares Joana Bergmann Jeane dela Cruz Jessie Gawronski Polina Golubeva Heike Haslwimmer Linda Lartey Eva Leifheit Stefanie Maaß Sven Marhan Liliana Pinek Jeff R. Powell Julien Roy Stavros D. Veresoglou Dongwei Wang Anja Wulf Weishuang Zheng Matthias C. Rillig |
| author_facet | Tessa Camenzind Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros Stefan Hempel Anika Lehmann Milos Bielcik Diana R. Andrade-Linares Joana Bergmann Jeane dela Cruz Jessie Gawronski Polina Golubeva Heike Haslwimmer Linda Lartey Eva Leifheit Stefanie Maaß Sven Marhan Liliana Pinek Jeff R. Powell Julien Roy Stavros D. Veresoglou Dongwei Wang Anja Wulf Weishuang Zheng Matthias C. Rillig |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-8f83e058c87448868d4beb4d7f9419262024-04-21T11:23:20ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232024-04-0115111310.1038/s41467-024-47705-7Towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungiTessa Camenzind0Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros1Stefan Hempel2Anika Lehmann3Milos Bielcik4Diana R. Andrade-Linares5Joana Bergmann6Jeane dela Cruz7Jessie Gawronski8Polina Golubeva9Heike Haslwimmer10Linda Lartey11Eva Leifheit12Stefanie Maaß13Sven Marhan14Liliana Pinek15Jeff R. Powell16Julien Roy17Stavros D. Veresoglou18Dongwei Wang19Anja Wulf20Weishuang Zheng21Matthias C. Rillig22Institute of Biology, Freie Universität BerlinHawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney UniversityInstitute of Biology, Freie Universität BerlinInstitute of Biology, Freie Universität BerlinInstitute of Biology, Freie Universität BerlinResearch Unit Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Helmholtz Zentrum MünchenLeibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)Institute of Biology, Freie Universität BerlinInstitute of Biology, Freie Universität BerlinInstitute of Biology, Freie Universität BerlinInstitute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Soil Biology department, University of HohenheimInstitute of Biology, Freie Universität BerlinInstitute of Biology, Freie Universität BerlinInstitute of Biology, Freie Universität BerlinInstitute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Soil Biology department, University of HohenheimInstitute of Biology, Freie Universität BerlinHawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney UniversityInstitute of Biology, Freie Universität BerlinState Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen UniversityInstitute of Biology, Freie Universität BerlinInstitute of Biology, Freie Universität BerlinMarine Institute for Bioresources and Environment, Peking University Shenzhen InstituteInstitute of Biology, Freie Universität BerlinAbstract 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.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47705-7 |
| spellingShingle | Tessa Camenzind Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros Stefan Hempel Anika Lehmann Milos Bielcik Diana R. Andrade-Linares Joana Bergmann Jeane dela Cruz Jessie Gawronski Polina Golubeva Heike Haslwimmer Linda Lartey Eva Leifheit Stefanie Maaß Sven Marhan Liliana Pinek Jeff R. Powell Julien Roy Stavros D. Veresoglou Dongwei Wang Anja Wulf Weishuang Zheng Matthias C. Rillig Towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi Nature Communications |
| title | Towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi |
| title_full | Towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi |
| title_fullStr | Towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi |
| title_short | Towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi |
| title_sort | towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47705-7 |
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