Fungal diversity is negatively affected by habitat fragmentation: a meta-analysis.

Fungal diversity is negatively affected by habitat fragmentation: a meta-analysis.
Curr Opin Microbiol. 2017 Jun 01;37:61-66
Authors: Grilli G, Longo S, Huais PY, Pereyra M, Verga E, Urcelay C, Galetto L
Abstract
Fungi are ubiquitous organisms around the world with important roles in ecosystem functioning and services, but knowledge about how habitat fragmentation affect fungal diversity is spread in different trophic groups, studied regions and experimental approaches. We performed a meta-analysis to synthesize the available information to glimpse general patterns of habitat fragmentation effects on fungal diversity. The habitat fragmentation process consistently affect fungal diversity through isolation, area size and increasing edge proportion, albeit this trend may differ between both the type of response variable and fungal groups with different nutritional habits. Together, this knowledge may allow designing accurate strategies for sustainable land uses and landscape management in face of worldwide habitat fragmentation.
PMID: 28578292 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Current Opinion in Microbiology - June 1, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Grilli G, Longo S, Huais PY, Pereyra M, Verga E, Urcelay C, Galetto L Tags: Curr Opin Microbiol Source Type: research