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Monitoring Fungal Communities With the Global Spore Sampling Project
Frontiers in ecology and evolution, Vol.7, 511
14/01/2020
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Abstract
The kingdom Fungi is a megadiverse group represented in all ecosystem types. The global diversity and distribution of fungal taxa are poorly known, in part due to the limitations related to traditional fruit-body survey methods. These previous hurdles are now being overcome by rapidly developing DNA-based surveys. Past fungal DNA surveys have predominantly examined soil samples, which capture high species diversity but represent only the local soil community. Recent work has shown that DNA samples collected from the air with cyclone samplers provide information on fungal diversity at the scale of some tens of kilometers around the sampling location. To test the feasibility of air sampling for investigating global patterns of fungal diversity, we established a new initiative called the Global Spore Sampling Project (GSSP). The GSSP currently involves 50 sampling locations distributed on all continents, with each location collecting two 24-h samples per week. Here we describe the GSSP methodology, including the sampling, DNA extraction and sequencing protocols, and the bioinformatics pipeline. We further report results based on 75 pilot samples from five locations, of which three in Europe, one in Australia, and one in Greenland. The results show highly consistent patterns, suggesting that GSSP holds much promise for systematic global fungal monitoring. The GSSP provides highly standardized sampling across space and time, enabling much-improved estimation of total fungal diversity, the global distribution of different fungal groups, fungal fruiting phenology, and the extent of long-distance dispersal in fungi.
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- Title
- Monitoring Fungal Communities With the Global Spore Sampling Project
- Creators
- Otso Ovaskainen - Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNerea Abrego - University of HelsinkiPanu Somervuo - University of HelsinkiIsabella Palorinne - University of HelsinkiBess Hardwick - University of HelsinkiJuha-Matti Pitkänen - Natural Resources Institute FinlandNigel R. Andrew - University of New EnglandPascal A. Niklaus - University of ZurichNiels Martin Schmidt - Aarhus UniversitySebastian Seibold - Technical University of MunichJuliane Vogt - Technical University of MunichEvgeny V. Zakharov - University of GuelphPaul D. N. Hebert - University of GuelphTomas Roslin - Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesNatalia V. Ivanova - University of Guelph
- Publication Details
- Frontiers in ecology and evolution, Vol.7, 511
- Publisher
- Frontiers Research Foundation
- Identifiers
- 991013087219202368
- Copyright
- (c) 2020 Ovaskainen, Abrego, Somervuo, Palorinne, Hardwick, Pitkänen, Andrew, Niklaus, Schmidt, Seibold, Vogt, Zakharov, Hebert, Roslin and Ivanova. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering; Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article