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Fungal functional ecology: bringing a trait-based approach to plant-associated fungi.

  • Zanne AE Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, U.S.A.
  • Abarenkov K Natural History Museum, University of Tartu, Vanemuise 46, Tartu, 51014, Estonia.
  • Afkhami ME Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, U.S.A.
  • Aguilar-Trigueros CA Freie Universität-Berlin, Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
  • Bates S Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University Northwest, Westville, IN, 46391, U.S.A.
  • Bhatnagar JM Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, U.S.A.
  • Busby PE Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97330, U.S.A.
  • Christian N Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, U.S.A.
  • Cornwell WK Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia.
  • Crowther TW Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland.
  • Flores-Moreno H Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, and Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, U.S.A.
  • Floudas D Microbial Ecology Group, Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
  • Gazis R Department of Plant Pathology, Tropical Research & Education Center, University of Florida, Homestead, FL, 33031, U.S.A.
  • Hibbett D Biology Department, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 01610, U.S.A.
  • Kennedy P Plant & Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, U.S.A.
  • Lindner DL US Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Center for Forest Mycology Research, Madison, Wisconsin, WI, 53726, U.S.A.
  • Maynard DS Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland.
  • Milo AM Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, U.S.A.
  • Nilsson RH University of Gothenburg, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Box 461, 405 30, Göteborg, Sweden.
  • Powell J Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, 2751, Australia.
  • Schildhauer M National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101, U.S.A.
  • Schilling J Plant & Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, U.S.A.
  • Treseder KK Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, U.S.A.
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  • 2019-11-26
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  • Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. - 2020
clades
ecology
endophytes
evolution
functional traits
fungi
guilds
mycorrhizae
pathogens
saprotrophs
taxonomy
English Fungi play many essential roles in ecosystems. They facilitate plant access to nutrients and water, serve as decay agents that cycle carbon and nutrients through the soil, water and atmosphere, and are major regulators of macro-organismal populations. Although technological advances are improving the detection and identification of fungi, there still exist key gaps in our ecological knowledge of this kingdom, especially related to function. Trait-based approaches have been instrumental in strengthening our understanding of plant functional ecology and, as such, provide excellent models for deepening our understanding of fungal functional ecology in ways that complement insights gained from traditional and -omics-based techniques. In this review, we synthesize current knowledge of fungal functional ecology, taxonomy and systematics and introduce a novel database of fungal functional traits (FunFun ). FunFun is built to interface with other databases to explore and predict how fungal functional diversity varies by taxonomy, guild, and other evolutionary or ecological grouping variables. To highlight how a quantitative trait-based approach can provide new insights, we describe multiple targeted examples and end by suggesting next steps in the rapidly growing field of fungal functional ecology.
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