Preferential associations of soil fungal taxa under mixed compositions of eastern American tree species

S Kutos, EM Barnes, A Bhutada… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Soil fungi are vital to forest ecosystem function, in part through their role mediating tree
responses to environmental factors, as well as directly through effects on resource cycling …

Factors Influencing Soil Fungal Community Composition and Function in Deciduous Forests

S Kutos - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Microorganisms around the globe play a considerable role in the health and function of
individual organisms, including humans, and entire ecosystems. The stability and well-being …

[HTML][HTML] Tree species mixing begets admixture of soil microbial communities: Variations along bulk soil, rhizosphere soil and root tissue

Y Bai, H Wei, A Ming, W Shu, W Shen - Geoderma, 2023 - Elsevier
Tree species can substantially impact the structure and functioning of soil microbial
communities. However, how tree species mixing affects soil microbial communities along …

Soil fungal community composition and functional similarity shift across distinct climatic conditions

A Bui, D Orr, M Lepori-Bui, K Konicek… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A large part of ecosystem function in woodland systems depends on soil fungal
communities. However, global climate change has the potential to fundamentally alter these …

Dominant Role of Stochastic Processes in Soil Fungal Communities in Pioneer Forests at a Regional Scale

X Man, Q Zeng, M Zhou, FM Martin, F Zhang, H Liu… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Soil fungal community assembly is driven by deterministic and stochastic processes.
However, the contribution of these mechanisms to structure the composition of fungal …

Elevational changes in soil properties shaping fungal community assemblages in terrestrial forest

H Luo, C Wang, K Zhang, L Ming, H Chu… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Environmental variables shifted by climate change act as driving factors in determining plant-
associated microbial communities in terrestrial ecosystems. However, how elevation …

Soil fungal communities vary more with soil characteristics than tree diversity at a local scale

S Kutos, EM Barnes, JD Lewis - Canadian Journal of Forest …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Soil fungal communities vary spatially due to factors including variations in plant diversity
and soil characteristics; however, the relative influences of these factors on composition and …

An Intact Soil Core Bioassay for Cultivating Forest Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Communities

PG Avis, IC Meier, RP Phillips - Soil Biological Communities and …, 2017 - Springer
Ectomycorrhizal and other root-associated fungi play a critical role in forests by influencing
plant community structure and nutrient dynamics; however, given that most fungal taxa are …

Rhizosphere fungal community assembly varied across functional guilds in a temperate forest

S Liang, R Arraiano-Castilho, L Neuenkamp, H Li… - Ecological …, 2023 - Springer
Background Rhizosphere fungi play an important role in plant community dynamics and
biogeochemical cycling. While the drivers of fungal community assembly have been studied …

Foliar fungal communities in agroecosystems depend on crop identity and neighboring vegetation

BK Whitaker, RW Heiniger, CV Hawkes - Frontiers in Microbiomes, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Agricultural intensification causes plant diversity loss and environmental homogenization,
which may result in changes to plant-microbiome interactions mediating plant growth and …