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Plant species distributions along environmental gradients: do belowground interactions with fungi matter?
The distribution of plants along environmental gradients is constrained by abiotic and biotic factors. Cumulative evidence attests of the impact of biotic factors on plant distributions, but only few studies discuss the role of belowground communities. Soil fungi, in particular, are thought to play...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3857535/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24339830 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2013.00500 |
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author | Pellissier, Loïc Pinto-Figueroa, Eric Niculita-Hirzel, Hélène Moora, Mari Villard, Lucas Goudet, Jérome Guex, Nicolas Pagni, Marco Xenarios, Ioannis Sanders, Ian Guisan, Antoine |
author_facet | Pellissier, Loïc Pinto-Figueroa, Eric Niculita-Hirzel, Hélène Moora, Mari Villard, Lucas Goudet, Jérome Guex, Nicolas Pagni, Marco Xenarios, Ioannis Sanders, Ian Guisan, Antoine |
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description | The distribution of plants along environmental gradients is constrained by abiotic and biotic factors. Cumulative evidence attests of the impact of biotic factors on plant distributions, but only few studies discuss the role of belowground communities. Soil fungi, in particular, are thought to play an important role in how plant species assemble locally into communities. We first review existing evidence, and then test the effect of the number of soil fungal operational taxonomic units (OTUs) on plant species distributions using a recently collected dataset of plant and metagenomic information on soil fungi in the Western Swiss Alps. Using species distribution models (SDMs), we investigated whether the distribution of individual plant species is correlated to the number of OTUs of two important soil fungal classes known to interact with plants: the Glomeromycetes, that are obligatory symbionts of plants, and the Agaricomycetes, that may be facultative plant symbionts, pathogens, or wood decayers. We show that including the fungal richness information in the models of plant species distributions improves predictive accuracy. Number of fungal OTUs is especially correlated to the distribution of high elevation plant species. We suggest that high elevation soil show greater variation in fungal assemblages that may in turn impact plant turnover among communities. We finally discuss how to move beyond correlative analyses, through the design of field experiments manipulating plant and fungal communities along environmental gradients. |
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spelling | pubmed-38575352013-12-11 Plant species distributions along environmental gradients: do belowground interactions with fungi matter? Pellissier, Loïc Pinto-Figueroa, Eric Niculita-Hirzel, Hélène Moora, Mari Villard, Lucas Goudet, Jérome Guex, Nicolas Pagni, Marco Xenarios, Ioannis Sanders, Ian Guisan, Antoine Front Plant Sci Plant Science The distribution of plants along environmental gradients is constrained by abiotic and biotic factors. Cumulative evidence attests of the impact of biotic factors on plant distributions, but only few studies discuss the role of belowground communities. Soil fungi, in particular, are thought to play an important role in how plant species assemble locally into communities. We first review existing evidence, and then test the effect of the number of soil fungal operational taxonomic units (OTUs) on plant species distributions using a recently collected dataset of plant and metagenomic information on soil fungi in the Western Swiss Alps. Using species distribution models (SDMs), we investigated whether the distribution of individual plant species is correlated to the number of OTUs of two important soil fungal classes known to interact with plants: the Glomeromycetes, that are obligatory symbionts of plants, and the Agaricomycetes, that may be facultative plant symbionts, pathogens, or wood decayers. We show that including the fungal richness information in the models of plant species distributions improves predictive accuracy. Number of fungal OTUs is especially correlated to the distribution of high elevation plant species. We suggest that high elevation soil show greater variation in fungal assemblages that may in turn impact plant turnover among communities. We finally discuss how to move beyond correlative analyses, through the design of field experiments manipulating plant and fungal communities along environmental gradients. Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3857535/ /pubmed/24339830 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2013.00500 Text en Copyright © 2013 Pellissier, Pinto-Figueroa, Niculita-Hirzel, Moora, Villard, Goudet, Guex, Pagni, Xenarios, Sanders and Guisan. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Plant Science Pellissier, Loïc Pinto-Figueroa, Eric Niculita-Hirzel, Hélène Moora, Mari Villard, Lucas Goudet, Jérome Guex, Nicolas Pagni, Marco Xenarios, Ioannis Sanders, Ian Guisan, Antoine Plant species distributions along environmental gradients: do belowground interactions with fungi matter? |
title | Plant species distributions along environmental gradients: do belowground interactions with fungi matter? |
title_full | Plant species distributions along environmental gradients: do belowground interactions with fungi matter? |
title_fullStr | Plant species distributions along environmental gradients: do belowground interactions with fungi matter? |
title_full_unstemmed | Plant species distributions along environmental gradients: do belowground interactions with fungi matter? |
title_short | Plant species distributions along environmental gradients: do belowground interactions with fungi matter? |
title_sort | plant species distributions along environmental gradients: do belowground interactions with fungi matter? |
topic | Plant Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3857535/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24339830 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2013.00500 |
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