20.500.12556/DiRROS-27693 Disentangling drivers behind fungal diversity gradients along altitude and latitude Gradients in species diversity across elevations and latitudes have fascinated biologists for decades. While these gradients have been well documented for macroorganisms, there is limited consensus about their universality, shape and drivers for microorganisms, such as fungi, despite the importance of fungal diversity for ecosystem functions and services. We conducted a comprehensive survey of fungal species richness in forests across 17 elevational transects along a latitudinal gradient covering the continental scale of Europe. Diversity patterns along elevational and latitudinal gradients differed among fungal ecological guilds. Diversity of saprotrophs declined with elevation while ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungal diversity peaked in mid-elevations. Moreover, the diversity of root endophytic fungi increased with latitude but did not change with elevation. Bayesian species distribution modeling suggests that fungal diversity is structured by deterministic rather than stochastic drivers. Importantly, ECM fungal diversity pattern persists even after accounting for the effects of environmental conditions. These results suggest that environmental conditions differentially shape the diversity of fungal guilds along elevational and latitudinal gradients, but this goes beyond soil and climatic factors in the case of ECM fungi. This study paves the way toward a better understanding of fungal diversity gradients across elevations and latitudes, with possible implications for macroecological theory, conservation and management. fungal diversity altitudinal latitudinal biogeography climate pestrost gliv višinski gradient latitudinalni gradient biogeografija podnebje true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2026-02-19 14:11:31 2026-02-19 14:11:32 2026-02-20 03:51:46 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Nasl. z nasl. zaslona; Opis vira z dne 19. 2. 2026; Skupno št. avtorjev: 12; str. 295-308 iss. 1 Vol. 24 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 630*1 1469-8137 10.1111/nph.70012 269039875 https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.70012 1 84f8223c-0d94-11f1-9c9d-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=40646 New_Phytologist_-_2025_-_Barbi_-_Disentangling_drivers_behind_fungal_diversity_gradients_along_altitude_and_latitude.pdf New_Phytologist_-_2025_-_Barbi_-_Disentangling_drivers_behind_fungal_diversity_gradients_along_altitude_and_latitude.pdf 1 30D8E796C2097F02DDBD7B2B7A428C0C a6bb0550dc4f495e5212b67a2eeb38e388993f6891f6c5f59f16e4a40651e6d8 91f18d62-0d94-11f1-9c9d-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=40647 Gozdarski inštitut Slovenije 0 0 0