Data from: Soil fungal communities of grasslands are environmentally structured at a regional scale in the Alps ...
Studying patterns of species distributions along elevation gradients is frequently used to identify the primary factors that determine the distribution, diversity and assembly of species. However, despite their crucial role in ecosystem functioning, our understanding of the distribution of below-gro...
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2014
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Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.88fm3 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.88fm3 |
Summary: | Studying patterns of species distributions along elevation gradients is frequently used to identify the primary factors that determine the distribution, diversity and assembly of species. However, despite their crucial role in ecosystem functioning, our understanding of the distribution of below-ground fungi is still limited, calling for more comprehensive studies of fungal biogeography along environmental gradients at various scales (from regional to global). Here, we investigated the richness of taxa of soil fungi and their phylogenetic diversity across a wide range of grassland types along a 2800 m elevation gradient at a large number of sites (213), stratified across a region of the western Swiss Alps (700 km2). We used 454 pyro-sequencing to obtain fungal sequences that were clustered into operational taxonomic units (OTUs). The OTU diversity-area relationship revealed uneven distribution of fungal taxa across the study area (i.e. not all taxa are everywhere) and fine-scale spatial clustering. Fungal ... : Plant and environmental dataPlant species (frequency estimate) and environmental data in each of the 212 plots used in Pellissier et al. (In Review) Mol. Ecol.plant_env_data.txtITS1 sequences from soilITS1 sequences coming from the soil of 204 plots have been obtained with the fungal universal primers ITS1F ITS2. The pyrosequencing outputs of six half 454 runs have been pooled in this unique fasta file. The number of each half of run (R meaning run and H meaning half) and of each MID used are mentionned in the name of each sequence. More information is provided on the information associated to these sequences in the "readme.txt" file454AlpsSoilFungi2009_reads.seqFungal OTUs distribution in plotsFungal OTUs distribution in plotsfungal_OTUs_distribution_in_plots.txt ... |
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