Resilience of Fungal Communities to Elevated CO

Soil filamentous fungi play a prominent role in regulating ecosystem functioning in terrestrial ecosystems. This necessitates understanding their responses to climate change drivers in order to predict how nutrient cycling and ecosystem services will be influenced in the future. Here, we provide a q...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Microbial ecology 2016-08, Vol.72 (2), p.493-495
Main Authors: Veresoglou, Stavros D., Anderson, Ian C., de Sousa, Natalia M. F., Hempel, Stefan, Rillig, Matthias C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
NOTES AND SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Soil filamentous fungi play a prominent role in regulating ecosystem functioning in terrestrial ecosystems. This necessitates understanding their responses to climate change drivers in order to predict how nutrient cycling and ecosystem services will be influenced in the future. Here, we provide a quantitative synthesis of ten studies on soil fungal community responses to elevated CO₂. Many of these studies reported contradictory diversity responses. We identify the duration of the study as an influential parameter that determines the outcome of experimentation. Our analysis reconciles the existing globally distributed experiments on fungal community responses to elevated CO₂ and provides a framework for comparing results of future CO₂ enrichment studies.
ISSN:0095-3628
1432-184X