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Geographic Distance and Habitat Type Influence Fungal Communities in the Arctic and Antarctic Sites

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The Antarctic and Arctic regions are collectively referred to as the “Two Poles” of the earth and have extremely harsh climate conditions and fragile ecosystems. Until now, the biogeography of the fungal communities in the bipolar regions is not well known. In this study, we focused on the fungal communities in 110 samples collected from four habitat types (i.e., soil, vascular plant, freshwater, moss) in the Antarctic and Arctic sites using high-throughput sequencing. The data showed that the diversity and composition of fungal communities were both geographically patterned and habitat-patterned. ANOSIM tests revealed statistically significant differences among fungal communities in the eight sample types (R = 0.5035, p < 0.001) and those in the bipolar regions (R = 0.32859, p < 0.001). Only 396 OTUs (14.8%) were shared between the bipolar sites. Fungal communities in the four habitat types clustered together in the Arctic site but were separate from those of the Antarctic site, indicating that geographic distance was a more important determinant of fungal communities in the bipolar sites. These findings offer insights into the present-day biogeography of fungal communities in the bipolar sites.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant nos. 31670025), Projects of the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration, State Oceanic Administration (2013YR06006), National Infrastructure of Microbial Resources (Grant no. NIMR-2018-3), and CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (Grant no. 2016-I2M-2-002).

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Zhang, T., Wang, NF. & Yu, LY. Geographic Distance and Habitat Type Influence Fungal Communities in the Arctic and Antarctic Sites. Microb Ecol 82, 224–232 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-021-01742-7

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