Divergent selection across the landscape can favor the evolution of local adaptation in
populations experiencing contrasting conditions. Local adaptation is widely observed in a …

Environmental stresses can compromise the interactions of plants with beneficial microbes.
In the present review, experimental results showing that stresses negatively affect the …

Soil fungi play indispensable roles in all ecosystems including the recycling of organic
matter and interactions with plants, both as symbionts and pathogens. Past observations …

Soil microorganisms play a major role in shaping plant diversity, not only through their direct
effects as pathogens, mutualists, and decomposers, but also by altering the outcome of plant …

Sky islands are unique geologic formations, home to populations of organisms that have
weathered climate change since the Pleistocene. Long-term isolation and climatic …

Feedback between plants and their associated soil biota is an important driver of plant
distribution, abundance and community composition with consequences for ecosystem …

Understanding drivers of terrestrial fungal communities over large scales is an important
challenge for predicting the fate of ecosystems under climate change and providing critical …

Plant mutualistic association with various beneficial microbes is referred to as the plant
enhancer microbiome. These microbes are found either in episphere or endosphere of the …

Species concepts have long provided a source of debate among biologists. These lively
debates have been important for reaching consensus on how to communicate across …

Climate change will likely shift plant and microbial distributions, creating geographic
mismatches between plant hosts and essential microbial symbionts (eg, ectomycorrhizal …