UNTANGLING THE FUNGAL NICHE: A TRAIT-BASED APPROACH

UNTANGLING THE FUNGAL NICHE: A TRAIT-BASED APPROACH

Fungi are prominent components of most terrestrial ecosystems, both in terms of biomass and ecosystem functioning, but the hyper-diverse nature of most communities has obscured the search for unifying principles governing community organization. In particular, unlike plants and animals, observationa...

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Main Authors: Thomas W Crowther, daniel S maynard, Terence R. Crowther, Jordan ePeccia, Jeffrey R. Smith, Mark Alexander Bradford
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
functional traits
community ecology
Fungal niche
fungal biogeogoraphy
dominance-tolerance trade-off
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00579/full

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