naa a22 4500 510746586 CHVBK 20180411083048.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s13199-013-0252-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s13199-013-0252-0 Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity in Quercus ilex Mediterranean woodlands: variation among sites and over soil depth profiles in hyphal exploration types, species richness and community composition [Elektronische Daten] [Oula Shahin, Nicolas Paul, Serge Rambal, Richard Joffre, Franck Richard] Understanding the factors underlying the distribution of biodiversity is a challenging issue in ecology. Here, we examined the distribution patterns of ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity across the soil profile in three Quercus ilex forests. Contact exploration type strongly dominated at all sites, but was most prevalent in the upper, organic-rich soil layers. At each site, three quarters of the ectomycorrhizal tips and 59% of taxa were restricted to the ten first centimeters of the soil profile. The relative abundance of the dominant family Russulaceae increased with increasing soil depth. Species composition varied significantly among sites, with most species being rare. Species that occurred in only one of the three sites accounted for 78.9% of all species, and 57.3% of species were represented by a single ECM root tip. Our results suggest that (i) rare species at both local and regional scales contribute to the highly diverse fungal assemblages in Mediterranean forests and (ii) multi-sites studies including the whole soil profile are needed to provide comprehensive overviews of the taxonomic and functional diversities of ectomycorrhizal communities. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Ectomycorrhizas nationallicence Mediterranean forest nationallicence Quercus ilex nationallicence Diversity nationallicence Exploration types nationallicence Shahin Oula CEFE UMR 5175, Campus du CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France aut Paul Nicolas CEFE UMR 5175, Campus du CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France aut Rambal Serge CEFE UMR 5175, Campus du CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France aut Joffre Richard CEFE UMR 5175, Campus du CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France aut Richard Franck CEFE UMR 5175, Campus du CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France aut Symbiosis Springer Netherlands 61/1(2013-09-01), 1-12 0334-5114 61:1<1 2013 61 13199 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13199-013-0252-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13199-013-0252-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shahin Oula CEFE UMR 5175, Campus du CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Paul Nicolas CEFE UMR 5175, Campus du CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rambal Serge CEFE UMR 5175, Campus du CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Joffre Richard CEFE UMR 5175, Campus du CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Richard Franck CEFE UMR 5175, Campus du CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Symbiosis Springer Netherlands 61/1(2013-09-01), 1-12 0334-5114 61:1<1 2013 61 13199 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer