Fungal functional ecology : bringing a trait-based approach to plant-associated fungi
(2020) In Biological Reviews 95(2). p.409-433- Abstract
Fungi play many essential roles in ecosystems. They facilitate plant access to nutrients and water, serve as decay agents that cycle carbon and nutrients through the soil, water and atmosphere, and are major regulators of macro-organismal populations. Although technological advances are improving the detection and identification of fungi, there still exist key gaps in our ecological knowledge of this kingdom, especially related to function. Trait-based approaches have been instrumental in strengthening our understanding of plant functional ecology and, as such, provide excellent models for deepening our understanding of fungal functional ecology in ways that complement insights gained from traditional and -omics-based techniques. In... (More)
Fungi play many essential roles in ecosystems. They facilitate plant access to nutrients and water, serve as decay agents that cycle carbon and nutrients through the soil, water and atmosphere, and are major regulators of macro-organismal populations. Although technological advances are improving the detection and identification of fungi, there still exist key gaps in our ecological knowledge of this kingdom, especially related to function. Trait-based approaches have been instrumental in strengthening our understanding of plant functional ecology and, as such, provide excellent models for deepening our understanding of fungal functional ecology in ways that complement insights gained from traditional and -omics-based techniques. In this review, we synthesize current knowledge of fungal functional ecology, taxonomy and systematics and introduce a novel database of fungal functional traits (FunFun). FunFun is built to interface with other databases to explore and predict how fungal functional diversity varies by taxonomy, guild, and other evolutionary or ecological grouping variables. To highlight how a quantitative trait-based approach can provide new insights, we describe multiple targeted examples and end by suggesting next steps in the rapidly growing field of fungal functional ecology.
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- clades, ecology, endophytes, evolution, functional traits, fungi, guilds, mycorrhizae, pathogens, saprotrophs, taxonomy
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abstract = {{<p>Fungi play many essential roles in ecosystems. They facilitate plant access to nutrients and water, serve as decay agents that cycle carbon and nutrients through the soil, water and atmosphere, and are major regulators of macro-organismal populations. Although technological advances are improving the detection and identification of fungi, there still exist key gaps in our ecological knowledge of this kingdom, especially related to function. Trait-based approaches have been instrumental in strengthening our understanding of plant functional ecology and, as such, provide excellent models for deepening our understanding of fungal functional ecology in ways that complement insights gained from traditional and -omics-based techniques. In this review, we synthesize current knowledge of fungal functional ecology, taxonomy and systematics and introduce a novel database of fungal functional traits (Fun<sup>Fun</sup>). Fun<sup>Fun</sup> is built to interface with other databases to explore and predict how fungal functional diversity varies by taxonomy, guild, and other evolutionary or ecological grouping variables. To highlight how a quantitative trait-based approach can provide new insights, we describe multiple targeted examples and end by suggesting next steps in the rapidly growing field of fungal functional ecology.</p>}},
author = {{Zanne, Amy E. and Abarenkov, Kessy and Afkhami, Michelle E. and Aguilar-Trigueros, Carlos A. and Bates, Scott and Bhatnagar, Jennifer M. and Busby, Posy E. and Christian, Natalie and Cornwell, William K. and Crowther, Thomas W. and Flores-Moreno, Habacuc and Floudas, Dimitrios and Gazis, Romina and Hibbett, David and Kennedy, Peter and Lindner, Daniel L. and Maynard, Daniel S. and Milo, Amy M. and Nilsson, Rolf Henrik and Powell, Jeff and Schildhauer, Mark and Schilling, Jonathan and Treseder, Kathleen K.}},
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keywords = {{clades; ecology; endophytes; evolution; functional traits; fungi; guilds; mycorrhizae; pathogens; saprotrophs; taxonomy}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{2}},
pages = {{409--433}},
publisher = {{John Wiley & Sons Inc.}},
series = {{Biological Reviews}},
title = {{Fungal functional ecology : bringing a trait-based approach to plant-associated fungi}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12570}},
doi = {{10.1111/brv.12570}},
volume = {{95}},
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