The shape of fungal ecology: does spore morphology give clues to a species' niche?

Pringle, Anne; Vellinga, Else C.; Peay, Kabir G.

doi:10.1016/j.funeco.2015.04.005

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“…This challenge may have contributed to the failure to incorporate allometric theory into fungal ecology (and vice versa). A promising approach is to use determinate growth stages of fungi, such as sporocarp measurements (biomass, height, diameter) in a way analogous to plants and animals (Pringle et al, 2015). However, sporocarp formation (prevalent in a small group of fungal species), represents a very limited fungal life stage.…”

Section: Definition Of Allometry and The Scaling Of Metabolic Ratementioning

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Applying allometric theory to fungi

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Section: Definition Of Allometry and The Scaling Of Metabolic Ratementioning

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Applying allometric theory to fungi

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“…The relationship between fungal spore size and aerial dispersal capability has been studied for nearly a century in other fungi that form aboveground sporocarps (Buller, 1909; Norros et al ., 2014; Pringle et al ., 2015). Spore size as a predictive trait for AM fungal dispersal could be particularly informative because plasticity in spore size is comparatively large for the Glomeromycota and because spore size as a trait is phylogenetically conserved across broad AM fungal groups (Aguilar‐Trigueros et al ., 2019).…”

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Trait‐based aerial dispersal of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

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Summary Dispersal is a key process driving local‐scale community assembly and global‐scale biogeography of plant symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal communities. A trait‐based approach could improve predictions regarding how AM fungal aerial dispersal varies by species. We conducted month‐long collections of aerial AM fungi for 12 consecutive months in an urban mesic environment at heights of 20 m. We measured morphological functional traits of collected spores and assessed aerial AM fungal community structure both morphologically and with high‐throughput sequencing. Large numbers of AM fungal spores were present in the air over the course of 1 yr, and these spores exhibited traits that facilitate aerial dispersal. Measured aerial spores were smaller than average for Glomeromycotinan fungi. Trait‐based predictions indicate that nearly one third of described species from diverse genera demonstrate the potential for aerial dispersal. Diversity of aerial AM fungi was relatively high (20 spore species and 17 virtual taxa), and both spore abundance and community structure shifted temporally. The prevalence of aerial dispersal in AM fungi is perhaps greater than previously indicated, and a hypothesized model of AM fungal aerial dispersal mechanisms is presented. Anthropogenic soil impacts may liberate AM fungal propagules initiating the dispersal of ruderal species.

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“…However, in the case of spore shape and sporophore extraordinary diversity of shapes there is little quantitative explanations, most of it being highly hypothetical. 50 GM exploring the complexity of biological objects in 2D and 3D constructs morphospaces which are based on Euclidean tangent space to Kendall's shape space (which is spherical) meaning that all envisaged shapes are constrained to Euclidean space rules. 7 Since the vast majority of organisms fungi included present non-Euclidean geometric features GM is somehow reductionist.…”

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Is the study of fungal shape still useful?

Fodor

2018

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Shape is one of the oldest and constantly employed descriptors of species morphology. In the era of molecular identification and species characterization tools, shape is in the focus of new interdisciplinary efforts in search of better describing and understanding phenotypical niche, morphological spaces and the information they can convey. Fungi are morphologically versatile organisms, with different shapes corresponding to different stages in their life cycles, resource capture versus reproduction and dispersal strategies, presenting different topologies. In this review, different methods employed in fungal shape analysis from fractals, Lindenmayer systems, networks to geometric morphometrics and machine learning were presented. However, fungal shapes pertain mostly to hyperbolic and spherical geometries not investigated to the moment and worth to approach in the future.

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The shape of fungal ecology: does spore morphology give clues to a species' niche?

Cited by 39 publications

References 30 publications

Applying allometric theory to fungi

Applying allometric theory to fungi

Trait‐based aerial dispersal of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Is the study of fungal shape still useful?

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