Record ID No. |
2855 |
Author(s) |
Peay K G., Bidartondo M I., Arnold A E. , 2010 |
Affiliation |
Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3102, USA. kpeay@berkeley.edu |
Title |
Not every fungus is everywhere: scaling to the biogeography of fungal-plant interactions across roots, shoots and ecosystems |
Source. Vol.(no):Page |
New Phytologist. 185(4): 878-882p. |
Categories |
Mycorrhiza General |
Subjects |
Ecology |
Sub-subjects |
Miscellaneous |
Host |
Fungi |
Organism |
Mycorrhiza |
Country |
UK., Europe |
Abstracts |
This paper highlights the potential research outputs of global fungal biodiversity assessments. The ecological and historical determinants of fungal distributions - particularly those of symbiotic fungi - were a topic of discussion at a special symposium on the phylogenetic and functional patterns of host plants and their associated fungi. It is emphasized that the latitudinal and biome-level differences in the abundance of particular species, lineages and functional groups are probably linked with ecosystem processes and plant community structure at large spatial scales. |