Claim · model-written summary
Soil fungal richness remained constant across succession.
- Taxon
- Deschampsia flexuosa
Avenella flexuosae1 - Outcome
- soil fungal richnesse0
- Direction
- remained constante0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“In contrast, soil fungal richness remained constant while root endosphere fungal richness increased across succession.”
e1“a single plant species (Deschampsia flexuosa)”
Title
Microbial community composition but not diversity changes along succession in arctic sand dunes
Anbu Poosakkannu; Riitta Nissinen; Minna Männistö; et al. Environmental Microbiology 2016. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13599
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Bacterial richness increased across succession in bulk soil and leaf endosphere.
- Observation Root endosphere fungal richness increased across succession.
- Observation Shannon diversity indices did not differ significantly by successional stage in any compartment.
- Observation Microbial community composition differed significantly by successional stage in all compartments.
- Observation Major microbial OTUs were shared between stages.
- Observation Network analysis found successional stage-specific microbial groups.
- Observation Early succession had more co-occurring modules than late succession.