1. Disentangling drivers behind fungal diversity gradients along altitude and latitudeFlorian Barbi, Tijana Martinović, Inaki Odriozola, Antonin Machac, Andrea Moravcová, Camelia Algora, Dalibor Ballian, Sebastian Barthold, Vendula Brabcová, Sandra Awokunle Hollá, Zander Rainier Human, Hojka Kraigher, Jelena Lazarević, Clémentine Lepinay, Lenka Mészárosová, Daniel Morais, 2026, original scientific article Abstract: 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.
Keywords: fungal diversity, altitudinal, latitudinal, biogeography, climate
Published in DiRROS: 19.02.2026; Views: 260; Downloads: 73
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2. Dataset on microclimate properties in sinkholes of Dinaric beech forests (Slovenia) a decade after the silvicultural treatmentSaša Šercer, Urša Vilhar, Janez Kermavnar, Lado Kutnar, Aleksander Marinšek, Nataša Šibanc, Petr Baldrian, Vendula Brabcová, Tijana Martinović, Martina Štursová, Tanja Mrak, 2026, complete scientific database of research data Abstract: Information on the funders/programmes/projects that made the data collection possible: ARIS J4-4542/22-04480L Natural regeneration processes in beech forests after disturbance, ARIS research core funding P4-0107 Forest ecology, biology and technology, ARIS post-doc project Z4-4543 Long-term changes of forest vegetation caused by global and local environmental change drivers, the project Development of research infrastructure for the international competitiveness of the Slovenian RRI space – RI-SI-LifeWatch, financed by the Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Education, Science and Sport and the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund. The forest treatment experiment was supported by ManFor CBD 2010-2015 Life Environment Project LIFE09 ENV/IT/000078.
Keywords: microclimate properties, sinkholes, Dinaric beech forests, Slovenia
Published in DiRROS: 16.01.2026; Views: 308; Downloads: 204
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3. Kako naravna obnova jelovo-bukovega gozda vpliva na sestavo talnega mikrobioma?Nataša Šibanc, Petr Baldrian, Vendula Brabcová, Janez Kermavnar, Hojka Kraigher, Lado Kutnar, Tijana Martinović, Martina Štursová, Tanja Mrak, 2025, published scientific conference contribution abstract Keywords: naravna obnova, gozdovi, talni mikrobiom
Published in DiRROS: 27.11.2025; Views: 301; Downloads: 81
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4. Dataset on parameters of natural forest regeneration a decade after silvicultural treatment in Dinaric fir-beech forestsTanja Mrak, Janez Kermavnar, Lado Kutnar, Petr Baldrian, Nataša Šibanc, Vendula Brabcová, Tijana Martinović, David Lenarčič, Martina Štursová, 2025, complete scientific database of research data Keywords: research data
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5. Raznolikost in sestava talnega mikrobioma med procesi naravne obnove v jelovo-bukovem gozduNataša Šibanc, Petr Baldrian, Vendula Brabcová, Janez Kermavnar, Hojka Kraigher, Lado Kutnar, Tijana Martinović, Martina Štursová, Tanja Mrak, 2025, published scientific conference contribution abstract Keywords: mikrobne združbe, HTS, sečnja, bukev, naravna obnova
Published in DiRROS: 05.06.2025; Views: 712; Downloads: 251
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6. A meta-analysis of global fungal distribution reveals climate-driven patternsTomáš Větrovský, Petr Kohout, Martin Kopecky, Antonin Machac, Matěj Man, Barbara Doreen Bahnmann, Vendula Brabcová, Jinlyung Choi, Lenka Mészárosová, Zander Rainier Human, Clémentine Lepinay, Rubén López-Mondéjar, Tijana Martinović, 2019, original scientific article Abstract: The evolutionary and environmental factors that shape fungal biogeography are incompletely understood. Here, we assemble a large dataset consisting of previously generated mycobiome data linked to specific geographical locations across the world. We use this dataset to describe the distribution of fungal taxa and to look for correlations with different environmental factors such as climate, soil and vegetation variables. Our meta-study identifies climate as an important driver of different aspects of fungal biogeography, including the global distribution of common fungi as well as the composition and diversity of fungal communities. In our analysis, fungal diversity is concentrated at high latitudes, in contrast with the opposite pattern previously shown for plants and other organisms. Mycorrhizal fungi appear to have narrower climatic tolerances than pathogenic fungi. We speculate that climate change could affect ecosystem functioning because of the narrow climatic tolerances of key fungal taxa.
Keywords: fungi, global distribution, climate
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7. GlobalFungi, a global database of fungal occurrences from high-throughput-sequencing metabarcoding studiesTomáš Větrovský, Daniel Morais, Petr Kohout, Clémentine Lepinay, Camelia Algora, Sandra Awokunle Hollá, Barbara Doreen Bahnmann, Květa Bílohnědá, Vendula Brabcová, Federica DʹAlò, Tijana Martinović, 2020, original scientific article Abstract: Fungi are key players in vital ecosystem services, spanning carbon cycling, decomposition, symbiotic associations with cultivated and wild plants and pathogenicity. The high importance of fungi in ecosystem processes contrasts with the incompleteness of our understanding of the patterns of fungal biogeography and the environmental factors that drive those patterns. To reduce this gap of knowledge, we collected and validated data published on the composition of soil fungal communities in terrestrial environments including soil and plant-associated habitats and made them publicly accessible through a user interface at https://globalfungi.com. The GlobalFungi database contains over 600 million observations of fungal sequences across >17 000 samples with geographical locations and additional metadata contained in 178 original studies with millions of unique nucleotide sequences (sequence variants) of the fungal internal transcribed spacers (ITS) 1 and 2 representing fungal species and genera. The study represents the most comprehensive atlas of global fungal distribution, and it is framed in such a way that third-party data addition is possible.
Keywords: fungi, database, metabarcoading
Published in DiRROS: 03.01.2022; Views: 1672; Downloads: 1292
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