Mycorrhizal symbioses and tree diversity in global forest communities

Feng Jiang; Xucai Pu; Bernhard Schmid; Peter B. Reich; Jingjing Liang; Akane O. Abbasi; Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez; Angelica Maria Almeyda Zambrano; Jan Altman; Juan Gabriel Álvarez-González; Luciana F. Alves; Bienvenu H.K. Amani; Christian Ammer; Gerardo A. Aymard; Naveen Babu Kanda; Meredith L. Bastian; Jean Francois Bastin; Marijn Bauters; Pascal Boeckx; Svetlana N. Bondarchuk; Alexander Bondarev; Francis Q. Brearley; Sophie Brennan; Jaime Briseño-Reyes; Eben N. Broadbent; Goran Češljar; Han Y.H. Chen; Chelsea Chisholm; Wook Jin Choi; Emil Cienciala; Connie J. Clark; Alessio Collalti; José Javier Corral-Rivas; Javid Ahmad Dar; Selvadurai Dayanandan; Sergio de-Miguel; Ashaq Ahmad Dar; Géraldine Derroire; Ilija Djordjevic; Tran Van Do; Jiří Doležal; Aurélie Dourdain; Teresa Eyre; Adandé Belarmain Fandohan; Lorenzo Frizzera; Roberto Cazzolla Gatti; Damiano Gianelle; M. Socorro González Elizondo; Elisa Grieco; David J. Harris; Andy Hector; Bruno Hérault; Cang Hui; Nobuo Imai; Andrzej M. Jagodziński; Chengjun Ji; Lin Jiang; Carlos A. Joly; Viktor N. Karminov; Kuswata Kartawinata; Justin N. Kassi; Elizabeth Kearsley; Gunnar Keppel; Mohammed Latif Khan; Carine Klauberg; Kirill A. Korznikov; Subashree Kothandaraman; Florian Kraxner; Leonid Krivobokov; Dmitry Kucher; Amit Kumar; Anna Kvashnina; Gaia Vaglio Laurin; Rodrigo Vieira Leite; Moses B. Libalah; Ekaterina S. Lonkina; Huicui Lu; Shan Luo; Yuan Luo; Emma Mackintosh; Andrew R. Marshall; Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez; Radim Matula; William McDonald; Ayyappan Narayanan; María Guadalupe Nava-Miranda; Jagadeesan Naveenkumar; Abel Monteagudo Mendoza; Stanisław Miścicki; Tatyana Moskalyuk; Liudmila Mukhortova; Sharif A. Mukul; Gert Jan Nabuurs; Victor J. Neldner; Radovan Nevenic; Anny E. N’Guessan; Michael Ngugi; Alain Paquette; Elena I. Parfenova; Marc Parren; Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy; Pablo L. Peri; Sebastian Pfautsch; Maria T.F. Piedade; Galina Polyakova; Axel Dalberg Poulsen; John R. Poulsen; Hans Pretzsch; Mirco Rodeghiero; Ervan Rutishauser; Purabi Saikia; Philippe Saner; Dmitry Schepaschenko; Jochen Schöngart; Eric B. Searle; Douglas Sheil; Zehao Shen; Stephanie Shooner; Anatoly Shvidenko; Carlos A. Silva; Plinio Sist; Ferry Slik; Wenqi Song; Alexandre F. Souza; Krzysztof Stereńczak; Somaiah Sundarapandian; Martin Svátek; Miroslav Svoboda; Zhiyao Tang; Natalia Targhetta; Nadja Tchebakova; Elena Tikhonova; Liam Trethowan; Daniel José Vega-Nieva; Hans Verbeeck; Simone A. Vieira; Camille Volle; Anna S. Vozmishcheva; Foma K. Vozmitel; Hua Feng Wang; Shaopeng Wang; Xiangping Wang; Florian Wittmann; Chengyang Zheng; Biao Zhu; Irié Casimir Zo-Bi; Jingyun Fang; Zhiheng Wang

doi:10.1126/sciadv.adt5743

Mycorrhizal symbioses and tree diversity in global forest communities

Feng Jiang, Xucai Pu, Bernhard Schmid, Peter B. Reich, Jingjing Liang, Akane O. Abbasi, Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Angelica Maria Almeyda Zambrano, Jan Altman, Juan Gabriel Álvarez-González, Luciana F. Alves, Bienvenu H.K. Amani, Christian Ammer, Gerardo A. Aymard, Naveen Babu Kanda, Meredith L. Bastian, Jean Francois Bastin, Marijn Bauters, Pascal Boeckx, Svetlana N. BondarchukAlexander Bondarev, Francis Q. Brearley, Sophie Brennan, Jaime Briseño-Reyes, Eben N. Broadbent, Goran Češljar, Han Y.H. Chen, Chelsea Chisholm, Wook Jin Choi, Emil Cienciala, Connie J. Clark, Alessio Collalti, José Javier Corral-Rivas, Javid Ahmad Dar, Selvadurai Dayanandan, Sergio de-Miguel, Ashaq Ahmad Dar, Géraldine Derroire, Ilija Djordjevic, Tran Van Do, Jiří Doležal, Aurélie Dourdain, Teresa Eyre, Adandé Belarmain Fandohan, Lorenzo Frizzera, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Damiano Gianelle, M. Socorro González Elizondo, Elisa Grieco, David J. Harris, Andy Hector, Bruno Hérault, Cang Hui, Nobuo Imai, Andrzej M. Jagodziński, Chengjun Ji, Lin Jiang, Carlos A. Joly, Viktor N. Karminov, Kuswata Kartawinata, Justin N. Kassi, Elizabeth Kearsley, Gunnar Keppel, Mohammed Latif Khan, Carine Klauberg, Kirill A. Korznikov, Subashree Kothandaraman, Florian Kraxner, Leonid Krivobokov, Dmitry Kucher, Amit Kumar, Anna Kvashnina, Gaia Vaglio Laurin, Rodrigo Vieira Leite, Moses B. Libalah, Ekaterina S. Lonkina, Huicui Lu, Shan Luo, Yuan Luo, Emma Mackintosh, Andrew R. Marshall, Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez, Radim Matula, William McDonald, Ayyappan Narayanan, María Guadalupe Nava-Miranda, Jagadeesan Naveenkumar, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Stanisław Miścicki, Tatyana Moskalyuk, Liudmila Mukhortova, Sharif A. Mukul, Gert Jan Nabuurs, Victor J. Neldner, Radovan Nevenic, Anny E. N’Guessan, Michael Ngugi, Alain Paquette, Elena I. Parfenova, Marc Parren, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy, Pablo L. Peri, Sebastian Pfautsch, Maria T.F. Piedade, Galina Polyakova, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, John R. Poulsen, Hans Pretzsch, Mirco Rodeghiero, Ervan Rutishauser, Purabi Saikia, Philippe Saner, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Jochen Schöngart, Eric B. Searle, Douglas Sheil, Zehao Shen, Stephanie Shooner, Anatoly Shvidenko, Carlos A. Silva, Plinio Sist, Ferry Slik, Wenqi Song, Alexandre F. Souza, Krzysztof Stereńczak, Somaiah Sundarapandian, Martin Svátek, Miroslav Svoboda, Zhiyao Tang, Natalia Targhetta, Nadja Tchebakova, Elena Tikhonova, Liam Trethowan, Daniel José Vega-Nieva, Hans Verbeeck, Simone A. Vieira, Camille Volle, Anna S. Vozmishcheva, Foma K. Vozmitel, Hua Feng Wang, Shaopeng Wang, Xiangping Wang, Florian Wittmann, Chengyang Zheng, Biao Zhu, Irié Casimir Zo-Bi, Jingyun Fang, Zhiheng Wang

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Unraveling the mechanisms underlying the maintenance of species diversity is a central pursuit in ecology. It has been hypothesized that ectomycorrhizal (EcM) in contrast to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can reduce tree species diversity in local communities, which remains to be tested at the global scale. To address this gap, we analyzed global forest inventory data and revealed that the relationship between tree species richness and EcM tree proportion varied along environmental gradients. Specifically, the relationship is more negative at low latitudes and in moist conditions but is unimodal at high latitudes and in arid conditions. The negative association of EcM tree proportion on species diversity at low latitudes and in humid conditions is likely due to more negative plant-soil microbial interactions in these regions. These findings extend our knowledge on the mechanisms shaping global patterns in plant species diversity from a belowground view.

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Article number	eadt5743
Number of pages	13
Journal	Science Advances
Volume	11
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt5743
Publication status	Published - 13 Jun 2025

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Jiang, F., Pu, X., Schmid, B., Reich, P. B., Liang, J., Abbasi, A. O., Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M., Altman, J., Álvarez-González, J. G., Alves, L. F., Amani, B. H. K., Ammer, C., Aymard, G. A., Kanda, N. B., Bastian, M. L., Bastin, J. F., Bauters, M., Boeckx, P., ... Wang, Z. (2025). Mycorrhizal symbioses and tree diversity in global forest communities. Science Advances, 11(24), Article eadt5743. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt5743

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AU - Sundarapandian, Somaiah

AU - Svátek, Martin

AU - Svoboda, Miroslav

AU - Tang, Zhiyao

AU - Targhetta, Natalia

AU - Tchebakova, Nadja

AU - Tikhonova, Elena

AU - Trethowan, Liam

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