Aligning spatial ecological theory with the study of clonal organisms : the case of fungal coexistence
Bielčik, Miloš ; Schlägel, Ulrike E. ; Schäfer, Merlin ; Aguilar-Trigueros, Carlos A. ; Lakovic, Milica ; Sosa-Hernández, Moisés A. ; Hammer, Edith C. LU
; Jeltsch, Florian
and Rillig, Matthias C.
(2024)
In Biological Reviews
99(6).
p.2211-2233
- Abstract
Established ecological theory has focused on unitary organisms, and thus its concepts have matured into a form that often hinders rather than facilitates the ecological study of modular organisms. Here, we use the example of filamentous fungi to develop concepts that enable integration of non-unitary (modular) organisms into the established community ecology theory, with particular focus on its spatial aspects. In doing so, we provide a link between fungal community ecology and modern coexistence theory (MCT). We first show how community processes and predictions made by MCT can be used to define meaningful scales in fungal ecology. This leads to the novel concept of the unit of community interactions (UCI), a promising conceptual tool... (More)
Established ecological theory has focused on unitary organisms, and thus its concepts have matured into a form that often hinders rather than facilitates the ecological study of modular organisms. Here, we use the example of filamentous fungi to develop concepts that enable integration of non-unitary (modular) organisms into the established community ecology theory, with particular focus on its spatial aspects. In doing so, we provide a link between fungal community ecology and modern coexistence theory (MCT). We first show how community processes and predictions made by MCT can be used to define meaningful scales in fungal ecology. This leads to the novel concept of the unit of community interactions (UCI), a promising conceptual tool for applying MCT to communities of modular organisms with indeterminate clonal growth and hierarchical individuality. We outline plausible coexistence mechanisms structuring fungal communities, and show at what spatial scales and in what habitats they are most likely to act. We end by describing challenges and opportunities for empirical and theoretical research in fungal competitive coexistence.
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- author
- Bielčik, Miloš
; Schlägel, Ulrike E.
; Schäfer, Merlin
; Aguilar-Trigueros, Carlos A.
; Lakovic, Milica
; Sosa-Hernández, Moisés A.
; Hammer, Edith C.
LU
; Jeltsch, Florian
and Rillig, Matthias C.
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-12
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- clonal growth, competition–colonisation trade-off, fungal community ecology, fungal competition, growth–density covariance, intransitive coexistence, metacommunity, modern coexistence theory, modular organisms, spatial storage effect
- in
- Biological Reviews
- volume
- 99
- issue
- 6
- pages
- 23 pages
- publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85199975618
- pmid:39073180
- ISSN
- 1464-7931
- DOI
- 10.1111/brv.13119
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Biological Reviews published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Cambridge Philosophical Society.
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- 2024-12-04 10:05:28
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- 2025-06-05 00:48:22
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