A1 Journal article (refereed)
Towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi (2024)

Camenzind, T., Aguilar-Trigueros, C., Hempel, S., Lehmann, A., Bielcik, M., Andrade-Linares, D., Bergmann, J., dela Cruz, J., Gawronski, J., Golubeva, P., Haslwimmer, H., Lartey, L., Leifheit, E., Maaß, S., Marhan, S., Pinek, L., Powell, J., Roy, J., Veresoglou, S., . . . Rillig, M. (2024). Towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi. Nature Communications, 15, Article 3321. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47705-7

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All authors or editors: Camenzind, Tessa; Aguilar-Trigueros, Carlos, A.; Hempel, Stefan; Lehmann, Anika; Bielcik, Milos; Andrade-Linares, Diana, R.; Bergmann, Joana; dela Cruz, Jeane; Gawronski, Jessie; Golubeva, Polina; et al.

Journal or series: Nature Communications

eISSN: 2041-1723

Publication year: 2024

Publication date: 18/04/2024

Volume: 15

Article number: 3321

Publisher: Springer Nature

Publication country: United Kingdom

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47705-7

Research data link: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.23320148

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Open Access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/94452

Abstract

Trait-based frameworks are promising tools to understand the functional consequences of community shifts in response to environmental change. The applicability of these tools to soil microbes is limited by a lack of functional trait data and a focus on categorical traits. To address this gap for an important group of soil microorganisms, we identify trade-offs underlying a fungal economics spectrum based on a large trait collection in 28 saprobic fungal isolates, derived from a common grassland soil and grown in culture plates. In this dataset, ecologically relevant trait variation is best captured by a three-dimensional fungal economics space. The primary explanatory axis represents a dense-fast continuum, resembling dominant life-history trade-offs in other taxa. A second significant axis reflects mycelial flexibility, and a third one carbon acquisition traits. All three axes correlate with traits involved in soil carbon cycling. Since stress tolerance and fundamental niche gradients are primarily related to the dense-fast continuum, traits of the 2nd (carbon-use efficiency) and especially the 3rd (decomposition) orthogonal axes are independent of tested environmental stressors. These findings suggest a fungal economics space which can now be tested at broader scales.

Keywords: microbial ecology; soil; soil biota; sponges; environmental changes; biotic communities; life cycle analysis; carbon cycle

Free keywords: fungal ecology; microbial ecology

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VIRTA submission year: 2024

Preliminary JUFO rating: 3