ORCID Profile
0000-0002-9493-3850
Current Organisations
University of Petroleum and Energy Studies
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DIT University Faculty of Pharmacy
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Fondazione Edmund Mach - Research and Innovation Centre
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Università degli Studi di Trento
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-2014
DOI: 10.1038/NATURE13182
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 18-12-2015
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: 03-03-2022
DOI: 10.1101/2022.03.01.482255
Abstract: Fungi are major drivers of ecosystem functions. Increases in aridity are known to negatively impact fungal communities in dryland ecosystems globally, however, much less is known on the potential influence of other environmental drivers. To fill this knowledge gap, we reanalyzed fungal data from 912 soil s les, providing the largest and most complete fungal community dataset from global drylands. We used machine learning tools to examine geographical patterns in community composition and spatial, edaphic, and climatic factors driving them. Further, we determined critical thresholds of community turnover along those gradients. Our analysis identifies UV index, climate seasonality, and sand content as the most important environmental predictors of community shifts, harbouring greatest association with the richness of putative plant pathogens and saprobes. Important nonlinear relationships existed with each of these fungal guilds, with increases in UV and temperature seasonality above 7.5 and 900 SD, respectively, being associated with an increased probability of plant pathogens and unspecified saprotrophs occurrence. Conversely, these environmental parameters had a negative relationship with litter and soil saprotrophs richness. Consequently, these functional groups might be differentially sensitive to environmental changes, which might result in an inevitable disturbance of current plant-soil dynamics in drylands.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-08-2014
DOI: 10.1038/NBT.3001
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-11-2022
DOI: 10.1111/GEB.13607
Abstract: Fungi are major drivers of ecosystem functioning. Increases in aridity are known to negatively impact fungal community composition in dryland ecosystems globally yet, much less is known on the potential influence of other environmental drivers, and whether these relationships are linear or nonlinear. 2017–2021. Global. Fungi. We re‐analysed multiple datasets from different dryland biogeographical regions, for a total of 912 s les and 1,483 taxa. We examined geographical patterns in community ersity and composition, and spatial, edaphic and climatic factors driving them. UV index, climate seasonality, and sand content were the most important environmental predictors of community shifts, showing the strongest association with the richness of putative plant pathogens and saprobes. Important nonlinear relationships existed with each of these fungal guilds, with increases in UV and temperature seasonality above 7.5 and 900 SD (standard deviation x 100 of the mean monthly temperature), respectively, being associated with an increased probability of plant pathogen and unspecified saprotroph occurrence. Conversely, these environmental parameters had a negative relationship with litter and soil saprotroph richness. Consequently, these ecological groups might be particularly sensitive to shifts in UV radiation and climate seasonality, which is likely to disturb current plant–soil dynamics in drylands. Our synthesis integrates fungal community data from drylands across the globe, allowing the investigation of fungal distribution and providing the first evidence of shifts in fungal ersity and composition of key fungal ecological groups along erse spatial, climatic and edaphic gradients in these widely distributed ecosystems. Our findings imply that shifts in soil structure and seasonal climatic patterns induced by global change will have disproportionate consequences for the distribution of fungal groups linked to vegetation and biogeochemical cycling in drylands, with implications for plant–soil interactions in drylands.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1007/11676935_35
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 13-12-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2008
Location: Italy
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