Data from: Long-lasting modification of soil fungal diversity associated with the introduction of rabbits to a remote sub-Antarctic archipelago
During the late nineteenth century, Europeans introduced rabbits to many of the sub-Antarctic islands, environments that prior to this had been devoid of mammalian herbivores. The impacts of rabbits on indigenous ecosystems are well studied; notably, they cause dramatic changes in plant communities...
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ftdryad:oai:v1.datadryad.org:10255/dryad.93598 2023-05-15T14:00:52+02:00 Data from: Long-lasting modification of soil fungal diversity associated with the introduction of rabbits to a remote sub-Antarctic archipelago Pansu, Johan Winkworth, Richard C. Hennion, Françoise Gielly, Ludovic Taberlet, Pierre Choler, Philippe Kerguelen Islands Sub-Antarctic Islands 2015-07-28T13:41:38Z http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.93598 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.t8534 unknown doi:10.5061/dryad.t8534/1 doi:10.5061/dryad.t8534/2 doi:10.5061/dryad.t8534/3 doi:10.5061/dryad.t8534/4 doi:10.5061/dryad.t8534/5 doi:10.5061/dryad.t8534/6 doi:10.5061/dryad.t8534/7 doi:10.1098/rsbl.2015.0408 PMID:26333663 doi:10.5061/dryad.t8534 Pansu J, Winkworth RC, Hennion F, Gielly L, Taberlet P, Choler P (2015) Long-lasting modification of soil fungal diversity associated with the introduction of rabbits to a remote sub-Antarctic archipelago. Biology Letters 11(9): 20150408. http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.93598 Environmental DNA Invasive species Metabarcoding Soil communities Article 2015 ftdryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.t8534 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.t8534/1 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.t8534/2 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.t8534/3 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.t8534/4 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.t8534/5 https://doi.org/1 2020-01-01T15:22:51Z During the late nineteenth century, Europeans introduced rabbits to many of the sub-Antarctic islands, environments that prior to this had been devoid of mammalian herbivores. The impacts of rabbits on indigenous ecosystems are well studied; notably, they cause dramatic changes in plant communities and promote soil erosion. However, the responses of fungal communities to such biotic disturbances remain unexplored. We used metabarcoding of soil extracellular DNA to assess the diversity of plant and fungal communities at sites on the sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Islands with contrasting histories of disturbance by rabbits. Our results suggest that on these islands, the simplification of plant communities and increased erosion resulting from the introduction of rabbits have driven compositional changes, including diversity reductions, in indigenous soil fungal communities. Moreover, there is no indication of recovery at sites from which rabbits were removed 20 years ago. These results imply that introduced herbivores have long-lasting and multifaceted effects on fungal biodiversity as well as highlight the low resiliency of sub-Antarctic ecosystems. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Kerguelen Islands Dryad Digital Repository (Duke University) Antarctic Kerguelen Kerguelen Islands |
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During the late nineteenth century, Europeans introduced rabbits to many of the sub-Antarctic islands, environments that prior to this had been devoid of mammalian herbivores. The impacts of rabbits on indigenous ecosystems are well studied; notably, they cause dramatic changes in plant communities and promote soil erosion. However, the responses of fungal communities to such biotic disturbances remain unexplored. We used metabarcoding of soil extracellular DNA to assess the diversity of plant and fungal communities at sites on the sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Islands with contrasting histories of disturbance by rabbits. Our results suggest that on these islands, the simplification of plant communities and increased erosion resulting from the introduction of rabbits have driven compositional changes, including diversity reductions, in indigenous soil fungal communities. Moreover, there is no indication of recovery at sites from which rabbits were removed 20 years ago. These results imply that introduced herbivores have long-lasting and multifaceted effects on fungal biodiversity as well as highlight the low resiliency of sub-Antarctic ecosystems. |
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Pansu, Johan Winkworth, Richard C. Hennion, Françoise Gielly, Ludovic Taberlet, Pierre Choler, Philippe |
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Pansu, Johan Winkworth, Richard C. Hennion, Françoise Gielly, Ludovic Taberlet, Pierre Choler, Philippe |
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Data from: Long-lasting modification of soil fungal diversity associated with the introduction of rabbits to a remote sub-Antarctic archipelago |
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Data from: Long-lasting modification of soil fungal diversity associated with the introduction of rabbits to a remote sub-Antarctic archipelago |
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data from: long-lasting modification of soil fungal diversity associated with the introduction of rabbits to a remote sub-antarctic archipelago |
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