Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

John Davison¹, Mari Moora¹, Marina Semchenko^{1

2}, Sakeenah Binte Adenan³, Talaat Ahmed³, Asem A Akhmetzhanova⁴, Juha M Alatalo³, Saleh Al-Quraishy⁵, Elena Andriyanova⁶, Sten Anslan¹, Mohammad Bahram⁷, Amgaa Batbaatar⁸, Charlotte Brown⁸, C Guillermo Bueno¹, James Cahill⁸, Juan José Cantero^{9

10}, Brenda B Casper¹¹, Mikhail Cherosov¹², Saida Chideh¹³, Ana P Coelho¹⁴, Matthew Coghill¹⁵, Guillaume Decocq¹⁶, Sergey Dudov⁴, Ezequiel Chimbioputo Fabiano¹⁷, Vladimir E Fedosov^{4

18}, Lauchlan Fraser¹⁵, Sydney I Glassman¹⁹, Aveliina Helm¹, Hugh A L Henry²⁰, Bruno Hérault^{21

22

23}, Indrek Hiiesalu¹, Inga Hiiesalu¹, Wael N Hozzein^{5

24}, Petr Kohout^{25

26}, Urmas Kõljalg¹, Kadri Koorem¹, Lauri Laanisto²⁷, Ülo Mander¹, Ladislav Mucina^{28

29}, Jean-Pierre Munyampundu³⁰, Lena Neuenkamp^{1

31}, Ülo Niinemets³², Casper Nyamukondiwa³³, Jane Oja¹, Vladimir Onipchenko⁴, Meelis Pärtel¹, Cherdchai Phosri³⁴, Sergei Põlme^{1

35}, Kersti Püssa¹, Argo Ronk¹¹, Alessandro Saitta³⁶, Olivia Semboli³⁷, Siim-Kaarel Sepp¹, Alexey Seregin⁴, Surya Sudheer¹, Clara P Peña-Venegas³⁸, Claudia Paz³⁹, Tanel Vahter¹, Martti Vasar¹, Annelies J Veraart⁴⁰, Leho Tedersoo¹, Martin Zobel^{5

41}, Maarja Öpik¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia.
² School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester,, M13 9PL, UK.
³ Environmental Science Centre, Qatar University, Doha, 2713, Qatar.
⁴ Department of Ecology and Plant Geography, Faculty of Biology, Moscow Lomonsov State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia.
⁵ Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia.
⁶ Institute of Biological Problems of the North Far East Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, 685000, Russia.
⁷ Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, 756 51, Sweden.
⁸ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9, Canada.
⁹ Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CONICET, Córdoba, X5000HUA, Argentina.
¹⁰ Departamento de Biología Agrícola, Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Córdoba, X5804BYA, Argentina.
¹¹ Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-4544, USA.
¹² Institute of Biological Problems of the Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, 677000, Russia.
¹³ Département de Recherche en Sciences de l'Environnement, Université de Djibouti, Private bag 1904, Djibouti, Djibouti.
¹⁴ Department of Biology and CESAM, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, 3810-193, Portugal.
¹⁵ Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, V2C 0C8, Canada.
¹⁶ Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés, Jules Verne University of Picardie, Amiens, F-80037, France.
¹⁷ Department of Wildlife Management and Ecotourism, University of Namibia, Private bag 1096, Katima Mulilo, Namibia.
¹⁸ Botanical Garden-Institute FEB RAS, Vladivostok, 690024, Russia.
¹⁹ Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.
²⁰ Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada.
²¹ CIRAD, UPR Forêts et Sociétés, Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire.
²² Forêts et Sociétés, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, 34000, France.
²³ Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny, INP-HB, Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire.
²⁴ Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Bani Suwayf, 62511, Egypt.
²⁵ Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Science, Prague, 14220, Czechia.
²⁶ Department of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, 12843, Czechia.
²⁷ Chair of Biodiversity and Nature Tourism, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, 51006, Estonia.
²⁸ Iluka Chair in Vegetation Science and Biogeography, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Perth, WA, 6150, Australia.
²⁹ Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, 7602, South Africa.
³⁰ School of Science, College of Science and Technology, University of Rwanda, Kigali, 3900, Rwanda.
³¹ Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, 3013, Switzerland.
³² Chair of Crop Science and Plant Biology, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, 51006, Estonia.
³³ Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Private bag 16, Palapye, Botswana.
³⁴ Department of Biology, Nakhon Phanom University, Nakhon Phanom, 48000, Thailand.
³⁵ Natural History Museum, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51014, Estonia.
³⁶ Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, 90128, Italy.
³⁷ Center of Studies and Research on Pharmacopoeia and Traditional African Medicine, University of Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic.
³⁸ Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas Sinchi, Leticia, Amazonas, 910001, Colombia.
³⁹ Departamento de Biodiversidade, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, São Paulo, 13506-900, Brazil.
⁴⁰ Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 6525AJ, the Netherlands.
⁴¹ Department of Botany, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia.

PMID: 33507570
DOI: 10.1111/nph.17240

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Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

John Davison et al. New Phytol. 2021 Jul.

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. 2021 Jul;231(2):763-776.

doi: 10.1111/nph.17240. Epub 2021 Mar 4.

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Affiliations

¹ Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia.
² School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester,, M13 9PL, UK.
³ Environmental Science Centre, Qatar University, Doha, 2713, Qatar.
⁴ Department of Ecology and Plant Geography, Faculty of Biology, Moscow Lomonsov State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia.
⁵ Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia.
⁶ Institute of Biological Problems of the North Far East Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, 685000, Russia.
⁷ Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, 756 51, Sweden.
⁸ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9, Canada.
⁹ Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CONICET, Córdoba, X5000HUA, Argentina.
¹⁰ Departamento de Biología Agrícola, Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Córdoba, X5804BYA, Argentina.
¹¹ Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-4544, USA.
¹² Institute of Biological Problems of the Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, 677000, Russia.
¹³ Département de Recherche en Sciences de l'Environnement, Université de Djibouti, Private bag 1904, Djibouti, Djibouti.
¹⁴ Department of Biology and CESAM, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, 3810-193, Portugal.
¹⁵ Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, V2C 0C8, Canada.
¹⁶ Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés, Jules Verne University of Picardie, Amiens, F-80037, France.
¹⁷ Department of Wildlife Management and Ecotourism, University of Namibia, Private bag 1096, Katima Mulilo, Namibia.
¹⁸ Botanical Garden-Institute FEB RAS, Vladivostok, 690024, Russia.
¹⁹ Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.
²⁰ Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada.
²¹ CIRAD, UPR Forêts et Sociétés, Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire.
²² Forêts et Sociétés, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, 34000, France.
²³ Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny, INP-HB, Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire.
²⁴ Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Bani Suwayf, 62511, Egypt.
²⁵ Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Science, Prague, 14220, Czechia.
²⁶ Department of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, 12843, Czechia.
²⁷ Chair of Biodiversity and Nature Tourism, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, 51006, Estonia.
²⁸ Iluka Chair in Vegetation Science and Biogeography, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Perth, WA, 6150, Australia.
²⁹ Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, 7602, South Africa.
³⁰ School of Science, College of Science and Technology, University of Rwanda, Kigali, 3900, Rwanda.
³¹ Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, 3013, Switzerland.
³² Chair of Crop Science and Plant Biology, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, 51006, Estonia.
³³ Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Private bag 16, Palapye, Botswana.
³⁴ Department of Biology, Nakhon Phanom University, Nakhon Phanom, 48000, Thailand.
³⁵ Natural History Museum, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51014, Estonia.
³⁶ Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, 90128, Italy.
³⁷ Center of Studies and Research on Pharmacopoeia and Traditional African Medicine, University of Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic.
³⁸ Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas Sinchi, Leticia, Amazonas, 910001, Colombia.
³⁹ Departamento de Biodiversidade, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, São Paulo, 13506-900, Brazil.
⁴⁰ Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 6525AJ, the Netherlands.
⁴¹ Department of Botany, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia.

PMID: 33507570
DOI: 10.1111/nph.17240

Abstract

The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are a globally distributed group of soil organisms that play critical roles in ecosystem function. However, the ecological niches of individual AM fungal taxa are poorly understood. We collected > 300 soil samples from natural ecosystems worldwide and modelled the realised niches of AM fungal virtual taxa (VT; approximately species-level phylogroups). We found that environmental and spatial variables jointly explained VT distribution worldwide, with temperature and pH being the most important abiotic drivers, and spatial effects generally occurring at local to regional scales. While dispersal limitation could explain some variation in VT distribution, VT relative abundance was almost exclusively driven by environmental variables. Several environmental and spatial effects on VT distribution and relative abundance were correlated with phylogeny, indicating that closely related VT exhibit similar niche optima and widths. Major clades within the Glomeraceae exhibited distinct niche optima, Acaulosporaceae generally had niche optima in low pH and low temperature conditions, and Gigasporaceae generally had niche optima in high precipitation conditions. Identification of the realised niche space occupied by individual and phylogenetic groups of soil microbial taxa provides a basis for building detailed hypotheses about how soil communities respond to gradients and manipulation in ecosystems worldwide.

Keywords: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; ecological niche; molecular taxa; niche optimum; niche width; pH; phylogenetic correlation; temperature.

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The future of microbial ecological niche theory and modeling.
Kivlin SN, Hawkes CV, Papeş M, Treseder KK, Averill C. Kivlin SN, et al. New Phytol. 2021 Jul;231(2):508-511. doi: 10.1111/nph.17373. New Phytol. 2021. PMID: 34132414 No abstract available.

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