Webbläsaren som du använder stöds inte av denna webbplats. Alla versioner av Internet Explorer stöds inte längre, av oss eller Microsoft (läs mer här: * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Var god och använd en modern webbläsare för att ta del av denna webbplats, som t.ex. nyaste versioner av Edge, Chrome, Firefox eller Safari osv.

Porträttbild på Edith Hammer. Foto.

Edith Hammer

Universitetslektor

Porträttbild på Edith Hammer. Foto.

Aligning spatial ecological theory with the study of clonal organisms : the case of fungal coexistence

Författare

  • Miloš Bielčik
  • Ulrike E. Schlägel
  • Merlin Schäfer
  • Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros
  • Milica Lakovic
  • Moisés A. Sosa-Hernández
  • Edith C. Hammer
  • Florian Jeltsch
  • Matthias C. Rillig

Summary, in English

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.

Avdelning/ar

  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • LU profilområde: Naturbaserade framtidslösningar
  • Mikrobiologisk ekologi
  • Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
  • Funktionell ekologi

Publiceringsår

2024-12

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

2211-2233

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Biological Reviews

Volym

99

Issue

6

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Ämne

  • Ecology

Nyckelord

  • 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

Aktiv

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Microbial Ecology

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1464-7931