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Nutrient and stress tolerance traits linked to fungal responses to global change: Four case studies

Journal Article · · Elementa
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  1. Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
  2. Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego, CA (United States)
  3. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  4. Swiss Federal Inst. for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf (Switzerland)
  5. San Francisco State Univ., CA (United States)
  6. Carroll College, Helena, MT (United States)
  7. ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
In this case study analysis, we identified fungal traits that were associated with the responses of taxa to 4 global change factors: elevated CO2, warming and drying, increased precipitation, and nitrogen (N) enrichment. We developed a trait-based framework predicting that as global change increases limitation of a given nutrient, fungal taxa with traits that target that nutrient will represent a larger proportion of the community (and vice versa). In addition, we expected that warming and drying and N enrichment would generate environmental stress for fungi and may select for stress tolerance traits. We tested the framework by analyzing fungal community data from previously published field manipulations and linking taxa to functional gene traits from the MycoCosm Fungal Portal. Altogether, fungal genera tended to respond similarly to 3 elements of global change: increased precipitation, N enrichment, and warming and drying. The genera that proliferated under these changes also tended to possess functional genes for stress tolerance, which suggests that these global changes—even increases in precipitation—could have caused environmental stress that selected for certain taxa. In addition, these genera did not exhibit a strong capacity for C breakdown or P acquisition, so soil C turnover may slow down or remain unchanged following shifts in fungal community composition under global change. Since we did not find strong evidence that changes in nutrient limitation select for taxa with traits that target the more limiting nutrient, we revised our trait-based framework. The new framework sorts fungal taxa into Stress Tolerating versus C and P Targeting groups, with the global change elements of increased precipitation, warming and drying, and N enrichment selecting for the stress tolerators.
Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Biological Systems Science (BSS)
Grant/Contract Number:
89233218CNA000001; SC0020382
OSTI ID:
1825443
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 2263436
Report Number(s):
LA-UR--20-27381
Journal Information:
Elementa, Journal Name: Elementa Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 9; ISSN 2325-1026
Publisher:
University of California PressCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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