Geographic and host distribution of lignicolous mangrove microfungi
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John Paul Schmit
Abstract
We examined factors that contribute to the structuring of lignicolous mangrove microfungal communities across ocean basins and plant families. In particular, we hypothesized that microfungal communities are more similar between locations in the same ocean basin as compared to locations in different ocean basins, and that trees that are more closely related phylogenetically share more similar microfungal communities than those less closely related. We assessed these hypotheses through a meta-analysis employing ordination analysis on published data of fungal hosts and fungal distribution. Based on these analyses, we conclude that microfungal communities are more similar within a single ocean basin than between ocean basins, but mangrove trees that are close phylogenetically do not necessarily harbor microfungal communities that are distinctly different from less closely related hosts.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Author index
- Contents volume 47
- Taxonomical index
- Subject index
- Macroalgal assemblage structure on a coral reef in Nanwan Bay in southern Taiwan
- The effect of thallus size, life stage, aggregation, wave exposure and substratum conditions on the forces required to break or dislodge the small kelp Ecklonia radiata
- Reproduction in the green macroalga Codium (Chlorophyta): characterization of gametes
- Vegetative and reproductive morphology of Sargassum orotavicum sp. nov. (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) from the Canary Islands (eastern Atlantic Ocean)
- Recognition of Spyridia griffithsiana comb. nov. (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta): a taxon previously misidentified as Spyridia filamentosa from Europe
- Crystalline forms and cross-sectional dimensions of cellulose microfibrils in the Florideophyceae (Rhodophyta)
- Geographic and host distribution of lignicolous mangrove microfungi
- Spatial variation in littoral Codium assemblages on Jersey, Channel Islands (southern English Channel)
- Acknowledgement
