Not poles apart: Antarctic soil fungal communities show similarities to those of the distant Arctic
Antarctica's extreme environment and geographical isolation offers a useful platform for testing the relative roles of environmental selection and dispersal barriers influencing fungal communities. The former process should lead to convergence in community composition with other cold environmen...
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ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:511025 2023-05-15T13:49:32+02:00 Not poles apart: Antarctic soil fungal communities show similarities to those of the distant Arctic Cox, Filipa Newsham, Kevin K. Bol, Roland Dungait, Jennifer A.J. Robinson, Clare H. 2016-05 text http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511025/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511025/1/Cox.pdf http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/ele.12587/full en eng Wiley https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511025/1/Cox.pdf Cox, Filipa; Newsham, Kevin K. orcid:0000-0002-9108-0936 Bol, Roland; Dungait, Jennifer A.J.; Robinson, Clare H. 2016 Not poles apart: Antarctic soil fungal communities show similarities to those of the distant Arctic. Ecology Letters, 19 (5). 528-536. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12587 <https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12587> cc_by_4 CC-BY Publication - Article PeerReviewed 2016 ftnerc https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12587 2023-02-04T19:41:42Z Antarctica's extreme environment and geographical isolation offers a useful platform for testing the relative roles of environmental selection and dispersal barriers influencing fungal communities. The former process should lead to convergence in community composition with other cold environments, such as those in the Arctic. Alternatively, dispersal limitations should minimise similarity between Antarctica and distant northern landmasses. Using high-throughput sequencing, we show that Antarctica shares significantly more fungi with the Arctic, and more fungi display a bipolar distribution, than would be expected in the absence of environmental filtering. In contrast to temperate and tropical regions, there is relatively little endemism, and a strongly bimodal distribution of range sizes. Increasing southerly latitude is associated with lower endemism and communities increasingly dominated by fungi with widespread ranges. These results suggest that micro-organisms with well-developed dispersal capabilities can inhabit opposite poles of the Earth, and dominate extreme environments over specialised local species Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Arctic Arctic Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Arctic Antarctic Ecology Letters 19 5 528 536 |
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Antarctica's extreme environment and geographical isolation offers a useful platform for testing the relative roles of environmental selection and dispersal barriers influencing fungal communities. The former process should lead to convergence in community composition with other cold environments, such as those in the Arctic. Alternatively, dispersal limitations should minimise similarity between Antarctica and distant northern landmasses. Using high-throughput sequencing, we show that Antarctica shares significantly more fungi with the Arctic, and more fungi display a bipolar distribution, than would be expected in the absence of environmental filtering. In contrast to temperate and tropical regions, there is relatively little endemism, and a strongly bimodal distribution of range sizes. Increasing southerly latitude is associated with lower endemism and communities increasingly dominated by fungi with widespread ranges. These results suggest that micro-organisms with well-developed dispersal capabilities can inhabit opposite poles of the Earth, and dominate extreme environments over specialised local species |
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Not poles apart: Antarctic soil fungal communities show similarities to those of the distant Arctic |
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Not poles apart: Antarctic soil fungal communities show similarities to those of the distant Arctic |
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https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511025/1/Cox.pdf Cox, Filipa; Newsham, Kevin K. orcid:0000-0002-9108-0936 Bol, Roland; Dungait, Jennifer A.J.; Robinson, Clare H. 2016 Not poles apart: Antarctic soil fungal communities show similarities to those of the distant Arctic. Ecology Letters, 19 (5). 528-536. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12587 <https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12587> |
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