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Soil Fungal Community Structure in Boreal Pine Forests: From Southern to Subarctic Areas of Finland
The boreal forest environment plays an important role in the global C cycle due to its high carbon storage capacity. However, relatively little is known about the forest fungal community at a regional scale in boreal forests. In the present study, we have re-analyzed the data from our previous studi...
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author | Qu, Zhao-Lei Santalahti, Minna Köster, Kajar Berninger, Frank Pumpanen, Jukka Heinonsalo, Jussi Sun, Hui |
author_facet | Qu, Zhao-Lei Santalahti, Minna Köster, Kajar Berninger, Frank Pumpanen, Jukka Heinonsalo, Jussi Sun, Hui |
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description | The boreal forest environment plays an important role in the global C cycle due to its high carbon storage capacity. However, relatively little is known about the forest fungal community at a regional scale in boreal forests. In the present study, we have re-analyzed the data from our previous studies and highlighted the core fungal community composition and potential functional groups in three forests dominated by Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in Finland, and identified the fungal generalists that appear across geographic locations despite differences in local conditions. The three forests represent subarctic, northern and southern boreal forest, and are all in an un-managed state without human interference or management. The subarctic and northern areas are subject to reindeer grazing. The results showed that the three locations formed distinct fungal community structures (P < 0.05). Compared to the two northern locations, the southern boreal forest harbored a greater abundance of Zygomycota, Lactarius, Mortierella Umbelopsis, and Tylospora, in which aspect there were no differences between the two northern forests. Cortinarius, Piloderma, and Suillus were the core fungal genera in the boreal Scots pine forest. Functionally, the southern boreal forest harbored a greater abundance of saprotroph, endophytes and fungal parasite-lichen, whereas a greater abundance of ectomycorrhizal fungi was observed in the northern boreal forests. Moreover, the pathotroph and wood saprotrophs were commonly present in these three regions. The three locations formed two distinct fungal community functional structures, by which the southern forest was clearly separated from the two northern forests, suggesting a distance–decay relationship via geographic location. This study provides useful information for better understanding the common fungal communities and functions in boreal forests in different geographical locations. |
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spelling | pubmed-81884782021-06-10 Soil Fungal Community Structure in Boreal Pine Forests: From Southern to Subarctic Areas of Finland Qu, Zhao-Lei Santalahti, Minna Köster, Kajar Berninger, Frank Pumpanen, Jukka Heinonsalo, Jussi Sun, Hui Front Microbiol Microbiology The boreal forest environment plays an important role in the global C cycle due to its high carbon storage capacity. However, relatively little is known about the forest fungal community at a regional scale in boreal forests. In the present study, we have re-analyzed the data from our previous studies and highlighted the core fungal community composition and potential functional groups in three forests dominated by Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in Finland, and identified the fungal generalists that appear across geographic locations despite differences in local conditions. The three forests represent subarctic, northern and southern boreal forest, and are all in an un-managed state without human interference or management. The subarctic and northern areas are subject to reindeer grazing. The results showed that the three locations formed distinct fungal community structures (P < 0.05). Compared to the two northern locations, the southern boreal forest harbored a greater abundance of Zygomycota, Lactarius, Mortierella Umbelopsis, and Tylospora, in which aspect there were no differences between the two northern forests. Cortinarius, Piloderma, and Suillus were the core fungal genera in the boreal Scots pine forest. Functionally, the southern boreal forest harbored a greater abundance of saprotroph, endophytes and fungal parasite-lichen, whereas a greater abundance of ectomycorrhizal fungi was observed in the northern boreal forests. Moreover, the pathotroph and wood saprotrophs were commonly present in these three regions. The three locations formed two distinct fungal community functional structures, by which the southern forest was clearly separated from the two northern forests, suggesting a distance–decay relationship via geographic location. This study provides useful information for better understanding the common fungal communities and functions in boreal forests in different geographical locations. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8188478/ /pubmed/34122368 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.653896 Text en Copyright © 2021 Qu, Santalahti, Köster, Berninger, Pumpanen, Heinonsalo and Sun. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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) and the copyright owner(s) 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 | Microbiology Qu, Zhao-Lei Santalahti, Minna Köster, Kajar Berninger, Frank Pumpanen, Jukka Heinonsalo, Jussi Sun, Hui Soil Fungal Community Structure in Boreal Pine Forests: From Southern to Subarctic Areas of Finland |
title | Soil Fungal Community Structure in Boreal Pine Forests: From Southern to Subarctic Areas of Finland |
title_full | Soil Fungal Community Structure in Boreal Pine Forests: From Southern to Subarctic Areas of Finland |
title_fullStr | Soil Fungal Community Structure in Boreal Pine Forests: From Southern to Subarctic Areas of Finland |
title_full_unstemmed | Soil Fungal Community Structure in Boreal Pine Forests: From Southern to Subarctic Areas of Finland |
title_short | Soil Fungal Community Structure in Boreal Pine Forests: From Southern to Subarctic Areas of Finland |
title_sort | soil fungal community structure in boreal pine forests: from southern to subarctic areas of finland |
topic | Microbiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8188478/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34122368 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.653896 |
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