Record ID No. |
4336 |
Author(s) |
Leho Tedersoo, Mohammad Bahram and Ian A. Dickie , 2014 |
Affiliation |
Natural History Museum, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, 14A Ravila, Tartu 50411, Estonia, Email: leho.tedersoo@ut.ee |
Title |
Does host plant richness explain diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi? Re-evaluation of Gao et al. (2013) data sets reveals sampling effects |
Source. Vol.(no):Page |
Molecular Ecology 23(5): 992-995p. |
Categories |
Ectomycorrhiza |
Subjects |
Reviews |
Sub-subjects |
Biodiversity |
Host |
Plants |
Organism |
Ectomycorrhiza (EcM) |
Country |
Estonia, Northern Europe |
Abstracts |
The generally positive relationship between biodiversity of groups of directly or indirectly interacting organisms is one of the most important ecological concepts (Gaston, 2000 Nature, 405, 220-227; Scherber C, Eisenhauer N, Weisser WW et al., 2010 Nature, 468, 553-556). In a recent issue of Molecular Ecology, Gao C, Shi N-N, Liu Y-X et al. (2013: 22, 3403-3414) reported that the richness of plants and ectomycorrhizal fungi is positively correlated both at local and at global scales. Here, we challenge these findings by re-analysis of data and ascribe the reported results to sampling effect and poor data compilation. |