Tales and mysteries of fungal fruiting: How morphological and physiological traits affect a pileate lifestyle

Halbwachs, Hans; Simmel, Josef; Bässler, Claus

doi:10.1016/j.fbr.2016.04.002

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“…This leads to decreased predictive ability and misinterpretations of results in functional community ecology (Bolnick et al, ; Violle et al, ). These issues are especially pertinent in fungal trait ecology as intraspecific variability is often likely to be large, possibly larger than interspecific variability, and the bulk of existing studies use mean traits (Aguilar‐Trigueros et al, ; Halbwachs et al, ). Therefore, it is essential that future studies of basidiomycete wood fungi traits begin to incorporate, or at least consider, intraspecific variation.…”

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“…These databases have proven valuable for a range of plant community ecologists, both data submitters and users. Such a database for fungi would provide fungal trait ecologists with equivalent opportunities and may be easier to build now, before fungal trait research expands (Aguilar‐Trigueros et al, ; Halbwachs et al, ). Several databases already exist which contain information on some traits, although they have the same limitations as fungal taxonomic texts.…”

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“…The selection of fungal species is determined by the studies' questions (Pérez-Harguindeguy et al, 2013) and the life stage sampled (mycelium vs. fruit body). The majority of published fungal trait studies investigate trait variation along environmental or disturbance gradients (e.g., Nordén et al, 2013;Crowther et al, 2014;Halbwachs et al, 2016). Often the aim is to gain insights into how environmental gradients shape community composition, characteristics and change (McGill et al, 2006).…”

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“…Although research into fungal functional traits is only beginning, the past five years has seen several papers both advocating and implementing functional traits in analyses (Aguilar‐Trigueros et al, ; Bässler, Ernst, Cadotte, Heibl, & Müller, ; Crowther et al, ; Nordén, Penttilä, Siitonen, Tomppo, & Ovaskainen, ). Recently, there have been calls for development of a fungal functional trait handbook (Aguilar‐Trigueros et al, ; Halbwachs, Simmel, & Bässler, ); however, the broad range of fungal species makes writing a single trait handbook impossible. This handbook is intended to be the first in a series that introduces protocols for fungi, and focuses on basidiomycete wood decay fungi.…”

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“…While some of the traits presented have been previously measured and studied, others have been conceived especially for this handbook and only theoretical underpinning exists for their inclusion. The empirical evidence demonstrating ecological importance of most traits is generally lacking in the fungal literature (Aguilar‐Trigueros et al, ; Crowther et al, ; Halbwachs et al, ), and basidiomycete wood fungi is no exception. New traits were inspired by complementary plant traits or theoretical assumptions about fungal ecology, but require future studies to validate their inclusion in common fungal traits.…”

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Functional traits are widely recognized as a useful framework for testing mechanisms underlying species community assemblage patterns and ecosystem processes. Functional trait studies in the plant and animal literature have burgeoned in the past 20 years, highlighting a need for standardized ways to measure ecologically meaningful traits across taxa and ecosystems. However, standardized measurements of functional traits are lacking for many organisms and ecosystems, including fungi. Basidiomycete wood fungi occur in all forest ecosystems world‐wide, where they are decomposers and also provide food or habitat for other species, or act as tree pathogens. Despite their major role in the functioning of forest ecosystems, the understanding and application of functional traits in studies of communities of wood fungi lags behind other disciplines. As the research field of fungal functional ecology is growing, there is a need for standardized ways to measure fungal traits within and across taxa and spatial scales. This handbook reviews pre‐existing fungal trait measurements, proposes new core fungal traits, discusses trait ecology in fungi and highlights areas for future work on basidiomycete wood fungi. We propose standard and potential future methodologies for collecting traits to be used across studies, ensuring replicability and fostering between‐study comparison. Combining concepts from fungal ecology and functional trait ecology, methodologies covered here can be related to fungal performance within a community and environmental setting. This manuscript is titled “a start with” as we only cover a subset of the fungal community here, with the aim of encouraging and facilitating the writing of handbooks for other members of the macrofungal community, for example, mycorrhizal fungi. A http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.13239/suppinfo is available for this article.

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Tales and mysteries of fungal fruiting: How morphological and physiological traits affect a pileate lifestyle

Cited by 64 publications

References 90 publications

Handbook for the measurement of macrofungal functional traits: A start with basidiomycete wood fungi

Handbook for the measurement of macrofungal functional traits: A start with basidiomycete wood fungi

Fungal Biogeography

Asexual reproduction and vegetative growth of Bionectria ochroleuca in response to temperature and photoperiod

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