TY - JOUR
T1 - Fungal spore diversity, community structure, and traits across a vegetation mosaic
AU - Crandall, Sharifa G.
AU - Saarman, Norah
AU - Gilbert, Gregory S.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank field and lab assistants Samuel Hargrove, Marcus Silva, Eric Brunschwiler, Nikolas Madsen, Jennifer Thompson, Jussely Morfin, Amy Barnes, and Maryanne Beckwith. We appreciate comments and edits to this manuscript from Sara Grove and the Gilbert/Parker Lab. We thank the UCSC Natural Reserve staff Gage Dayton, Alex Jones, Joseph Miller, and Tim Hyland from Wilder Ranch State Park for their guidance in the field and for collection permits. This work was supported by the Hammett Award through the Environmental Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the National Academy of Sciences, Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Washington D.C. USA.
Funding Information:
We would like to thank field and lab assistants Samuel Hargrove, Marcus Silva, Eric Brunschwiler, Nikolas Madsen, Jennifer Thompson, Jussely Morfin, Amy Barnes, and Maryanne Beckwith. We appreciate comments and edits to this manuscript from Sara Grove and the Gilbert/Parker Lab. We thank the UCSC Natural Reserve staff Gage Dayton, Alex Jones, Joseph Miller, and Tim Hyland from Wilder Ranch State Park for their guidance in the field and for collection permits. This work was supported by the Hammett Award through the Environmental Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the National Academy of Sciences , Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Washington D.C., USA .
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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd and British Mycological Society
PY - 2020/6
Y1 - 2020/6
N2 - Fungal communities are structured across time and space by abiotic and biotic factors. We use amplicon-based genetic sequencing techniques to identify unculturable and culturable fungi in airborne spore assemblages across a vegetation mosaic and over the course of a rainy season in coastal California, USA. We found that the assemblages of fungal species varied over time, but with little spatial structure associated with habitat types. For airborne spores collected from different vegetation types, we also measured physical traits that may be important for survival, dispersal, or response to environmental change. We found larger and more elongated spores in dry and structurally open, shrub-like vegetation (chaparral) compared to smaller and rounder spores in wet and structurally closed vegetation (forests). Fungi in chaparral possess spore traits that allow them to persist and disperse in harsh, dry, open conditions. These results are useful for forest and land managers who are interested in restoring habitats with native plant species that are associated with a range of fungal symbionts.
AB - Fungal communities are structured across time and space by abiotic and biotic factors. We use amplicon-based genetic sequencing techniques to identify unculturable and culturable fungi in airborne spore assemblages across a vegetation mosaic and over the course of a rainy season in coastal California, USA. We found that the assemblages of fungal species varied over time, but with little spatial structure associated with habitat types. For airborne spores collected from different vegetation types, we also measured physical traits that may be important for survival, dispersal, or response to environmental change. We found larger and more elongated spores in dry and structurally open, shrub-like vegetation (chaparral) compared to smaller and rounder spores in wet and structurally closed vegetation (forests). Fungi in chaparral possess spore traits that allow them to persist and disperse in harsh, dry, open conditions. These results are useful for forest and land managers who are interested in restoring habitats with native plant species that are associated with a range of fungal symbionts.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.funeco.2020.100920
DO - 10.1016/j.funeco.2020.100920
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85081241695
SN - 1754-5048
VL - 45
JO - Fungal Ecology
JF - Fungal Ecology
M1 - 100920
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