A5072627052- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Fungal Biology and Applications
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant and fungal interactions
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Plant responses to water stress
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Academic Writing and Publishing
Freie Universität Berlin
2015-2025
University of Jyväskylä
2022-2025
Western Sydney University
2023-2025
Berlin Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research
2015-2024
Soils underpin terrestrial ecosystem functions, but they face numerous anthropogenic pressures. Despite their crucial ecological role, we know little about how soils react to more than two environmental factors at a time. Here, show experimentally that increasing the number of simultaneous global change (up 10) caused directional changes in soil properties, processes, and microbial communities, though there was greater uncertainty predicting magnitude change. Our study provides blueprint for...
Soil aggregation is a key ecosystem process resulting in the formation and stabilization of soil structure, consisting aggregates matrix pore spaces. As such, it significantly alters environment plant roots microbes multitude ways; thus, structure provides basic setting which mycorrhizas operate have evolved. Not surprisingly, important for root growth wide range features rates, such as carbon storage resistance to erosion (e.g. Jastrow et al., 1998; Six 2006). The complex process, regulated...
Abstract Microplastics in soils have become an important threat for terrestrial systems as they may potentially alter the geochemical/biophysical soil environment and can interact with drought. As microplastics affect water content, this could exacerbate well‐known negative effects of drought on ecosystem functionality. Thus, functions including litter decomposition, aggregation or those related nutrient cycling be altered. Despite potential interaction, we know relatively little about how...
Abstract Drought can strongly modify plant diversity and ecosystem processes. As droughts are expected to intensify in the future, it is important better understand responses this global driver. Root traits an overlooked but powerful predictor of drought because they direct contact with soil environment responsible for taking up nutrients water. Here, we determine which root sensitive magnitude that response. We also tested whether trait relationships shoot biomass affected by what extent...
OPINION article Front. Plant Sci., 27 October 2016Sec. Agroecology Volume 7 - 2016 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.01625
Summary Root traits respond to drought in a species‐specific manner, but little is known about how soil fungal communities and root concert. In glasshouse experiment, we determined the response of pathogens, saprotrophs, mutualistic all fungi associated with roots 24 plant species subjected drought. At harvest, were characterized by sequencing. Data on extracted from previously published work. Differences beta diversity between control specific. For some species, saprotrophic increased...
Abstract Fungi are among the most diverse and ecologically important kingdoms in life. However, distributional ranges of fungi remain largely unknown as do ecological mechanisms that shape their distributions 1,2 . To provide an integrated view spatial seasonal dynamics fungi, we implemented a globally distributed standardized aerial sampling fungal spores 3 The vast majority operational taxonomic units were detected within only one climatic zone, spatiotemporal patterns species richness...
Abstract Trait-based frameworks are promising tools to understand the functional consequences of community shifts in response environmental change. The applicability these soil microbes is limited by a lack trait data and focus on categorical traits. To address this gap for an important group microorganisms, we identify trade-offs underlying fungal economics spectrum based large collection 28 saprobic isolates, derived from common grassland grown culture plates. In dataset, ecologically...
Offspring size is a key trait for understanding the reproductive ecology of species, yet studies addressing ecological meaning offspring have so far been limited to macro-organisms. We consider this missed opportunity in microbial and provide what we believe first formal study offspring-size variation microbes using models developed mapped entire distribution fungal spore arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi (subphylum Glomeromycotina) tested allometric expectations (spore) output body size....
Fungi play key roles in ecosystems and human societies as decomposers, nutrient cyclers, mutualists, pathogens. Estimates suggest that roughly 3–13 million fungal species exist worldwide, yet considerable knowledge gaps regarding the mechanisms consequences, both ecological social, of dispersal from local to global scales. In this review, we summarize concepts underlying dispersal, review recent research, explore how fungi possess unique characteristics can broaden our understanding general...
Summary Drought causes soil feedback effects on plant performance. However, how the linkages between conditioned biota and root traits contribute to explain plant–soil (PSF) as a function of drought is unknown. We utilized inoculum from conditioning experiment where grassland species grew under well‐watered conditions, their fungi were analyzed. Under we 21 with those inocula either conspecific or heterospecific soils. At harvest, biomass measured. Negative PSF (higher in than soils) was...
Colonization of terrestrial environments by filamentous fungi relies on their ability to form networks that can forage for and connect resource patches. Despite the importance these networks, ecologists rarely consider network features as functional traits because measurement interpretation are conceptually methodologically difficult. To address challenges, we have developed a pipeline translate images fungal mycelia, from both micro- macro-scales, weighted graphs capture ecologically...
Abstract Understanding the effects of root‐associated microbes in explaining plant community patterns represents a challenge ecology. Although typically overlooked, several lines evidence point out that nonmycorrhizal, root endophytic fungi Ascomycota may have potential to drive changes ecology given their ubiquitous presence, wide host ranges, and species‐specific fitness effects. Thus, we experimentally manipulated presence fungal species microcosms measured its on communities....