TY - JOUR
T1 - Phylotype diversity within soil fungal functional groups drives ecosystem stability
AU - Liu, Shengen
AU - García-Palacios, Pablo
AU - Tedersoo, Leho
AU - Guirado, Emilio
AU - Van Der Heijden, Marcel G. A.
AU - Wagg, Cameron
AU - Chen, Dima
AU - Wang, Qingkui
AU - Wang, Juntao
AU - Singh, Brajesh K.
AU - Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Soil fungi are fundamental to plant productivity, yet their influence on the temporal stability of global terrestrial ecosystems, and their capacity to buffer plant productivity against extreme drought events, remain uncertain. Here we combined three independent global field surveys of soil fungi with a satellite-derived temporal assessment of plant productivity, and report that phylotype richness within particular fungal functional groups drives the stability of terrestrial ecosystems. The richness of fungal decomposers was consistently and positively associated with ecosystem stability worldwide, while the opposite pattern was found for the richness of fungal plant pathogens, particularly in grasslands. We further demonstrated that the richness of soil decomposers was consistently positively linked with higher resistance of plant productivity in response to extreme drought events, while that of fungal plant pathogens showed a general negative relationship with plant productivity resilience/resistance patterns. Together, our work provides evidence supporting the critical role of soil fungal diversity to secure stable plant production over time in global ecosystems, and to buffer against extreme climate events.
AB - Soil fungi are fundamental to plant productivity, yet their influence on the temporal stability of global terrestrial ecosystems, and their capacity to buffer plant productivity against extreme drought events, remain uncertain. Here we combined three independent global field surveys of soil fungi with a satellite-derived temporal assessment of plant productivity, and report that phylotype richness within particular fungal functional groups drives the stability of terrestrial ecosystems. The richness of fungal decomposers was consistently and positively associated with ecosystem stability worldwide, while the opposite pattern was found for the richness of fungal plant pathogens, particularly in grasslands. We further demonstrated that the richness of soil decomposers was consistently positively linked with higher resistance of plant productivity in response to extreme drought events, while that of fungal plant pathogens showed a general negative relationship with plant productivity resilience/resistance patterns. Together, our work provides evidence supporting the critical role of soil fungal diversity to secure stable plant production over time in global ecosystems, and to buffer against extreme climate events.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:68562
U2 - 10.1038/s41559-022-01756-5
DO - 10.1038/s41559-022-01756-5
M3 - Article
SN - 2397-334X
VL - 6
SP - 900
EP - 909
JO - Nature Ecology and Evolution
JF - Nature Ecology and Evolution
IS - 7
ER -