Biogeography in the air: fungal diversity over land and oceans
By J. Fröhlich-Nowoisky, Susannah Burrows, Zhiyong Xie, G. Engling, Paul Solomon, M. Fraser, O. Mayol-Bracero, P. Artaxo, D. Begerow, R. Conrad and 3 more. 2011
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Abstract. Biogenic aerosols are relevant for the Earth system, climate, and public health on local, regional, and global scales. Up to now, however, little is known about the diversity and biogeography of airborne microorganisms. We present the first DNA-based analysis of airborne fungi on global scales, showing pronounced geographic patterns and boundaries. In particular we find that the ratio of species richness between Basidiomycota and Ascomycota is much higher in continental air than in marine air. This may be an important difference between the "blue ocean" and "green ocean" regimes in the formation of clouds and precipitation, for which fungal spores can act as nuclei. Our findings also suggest that air flow patterns and the global atmospheric circulation are important for the understanding of global changes in biodiversity.
Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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- Global diversity and geography of planktonic marine fungi (2019, background): “2019), it seems possible that if terrestrial fungi are sourced into the sea (Frölich-Nowoisky et al. 2012), and if terrestrial fungal richness decreases with latitude (Tedersoo et al.”
- Role of Fungi in the Biomineralization of Calcite (2016, background): “Spores are so common in the atmosphere that they contribute to cloud formation [38,39].”
- Plant traits and taxonomy drive host associations in tropical phyllosphere fungal communities1 (2014, background): “2011), the large number of Basidiomycota species associated with airborne particulates (Fröhlich-Nowoisky et al. 2012) suggests that dispersal limitation does not explain their low abundance in the phyllosphere.”