Biodiversity of leaf litter fungi in streams along a latitudinal gradient

Sahadevan Seena; Felix Bärlocher; Olímpia Sobral; Mark O. Gessner; David Dudgeon; Brendan G. McKie; Eric Chauvet; Luz Boyero; Verónica Ferreira; André Frainer; Andreas Bruder; Christoph D. Matthaei; Stefano Fenoglio; Kandikere R. Sridhar; Ricardo J. Albariño; Michael M. Douglas; Andrea C. Encalada; Erica Garcia; Sudeep D. Ghate; Darren P. Giling; Vítor Gonçalves; Tomoya Iwata; Andrea Landeira-Dabarca; Damien McMaster; Adriana O. Medeiros; Josheena Naggea; Jesús Pozo; Pedro M. Raposeiro; Christopher M. Swan; Nathalie S.D. Tenkiano; Catherine M. Yule; Manuel A.S. Graça

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.122

Biodiversity of leaf litter fungi in streams along a latitudinal gradient

Sahadevan Seena^*
, Felix Bärlocher
, Olímpia Sobral
, Mark O. Gessner
, David Dudgeon
, Brendan G. McKie
, Eric Chauvet
, Luz Boyero
, Verónica Ferreira
, André Frainer
, Andreas Bruder
, Christoph D. Matthaei
, Stefano Fenoglio
, Kandikere R. Sridhar
, Ricardo J. Albariño
, Michael M. Douglas
, Andrea C. Encalada
, Erica Garcia
, Sudeep D. Ghate
, Darren P. Giling

Vítor Gonçalves, Tomoya Iwata, Andrea Landeira-Dabarca, Damien McMaster, Adriana O. Medeiros, Josheena Naggea, Jesús Pozo, Pedro M. Raposeiro, Christopher M. Swan, Nathalie S.D. Tenkiano, Catherine M. Yule, Manuel A.S. Graça

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of Coimbra, Marine and Environmental Sciences Center
Universidade do Minho
Mount Allison University
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)
Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin)
Berlin Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB)
University of Hong Kong
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
CNRS and Université Paul Sabatier
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science
James Cook University Queensland
University of Coimbra
UiT the Arctic University of Norway
University of Otago
University of Eastern Piedmont
Mangalore University
Universidad Nacional del Comahue -CONICET
Crawley Western Australia
Charles Darwin University
Yenepoya (Deemed to Be University)
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
University of the Azores
University of Yamanashi
Federal University of Bahia
Monash University Malaysia
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Université Julius N'Yerere de Kankan
University of the Sunshine Coast

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Abstract

Global patterns of biodiversity have emerged for soil microorganisms, plants and animals, and the extraordinary significance of microbial functions in ecosystems is also well established. Virtually unknown, however, are large-scale patterns of microbial diversity in freshwaters, although these aquatic ecosystems are hotspots of biodiversity and biogeochemical processes. Here we report on the first large-scale study of biodiversity of leaf-litter fungi in streams along a latitudinal gradient unravelled by Illumina sequencing. The study is based on fungal communities colonizing standardized plant litter in 19 globally distributed stream locations between 69°N and 44°S. Fungal richness suggests a hump-shaped distribution along the latitudinal gradient. Strikingly, community composition of fungi was more clearly related to thermal preferences than to biogeography. Our results suggest that identifying differences in key environmental drivers, such as temperature, among taxa and ecosystem types is critical to unravel the global patterns of aquatic fungal diversity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	306-315
Number of pages	10
Journal	Science of the Total Environment
Volume	661
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.122
State	Published - 15 Apr 2019

Keywords

Aquatic fungi
Global biodiversity
Latitudinal diversity gradient
Litter decomposition
Streams
Temperature

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Seena, S., Bärlocher, F., Sobral, O., Gessner, M. O., Dudgeon, D., McKie, B. G., Chauvet, E., Boyero, L., Ferreira, V., Frainer, A., Bruder, A., Matthaei, C. D., Fenoglio, S., Sridhar, K. R., Albariño, R. J., Douglas, M. M., Encalada, A. C., Garcia, E., Ghate, S. D., ... Graça, M. A. S. (2019). Biodiversity of leaf litter fungi in streams along a latitudinal gradient. Science of the Total Environment, 661, 306-315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.122

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