Mycorrhizal symbioses and tree diversity in global forest communities
Unraveling the mechanisms underlying the maintenance of species diversity is a central pursuit in ecology. It has been hypothesized that ectomycorrhizal (EcM) in contrast to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can reduce tree species diversity in local communities, which remains to be tested at the global scale. To address this gap, we analyzed global forest inventory data and revealed that the relationship between tree species richness and EcM tree proportion varied along environmental gradients. Specifically, the relationship is more negative at low latitudes and in moist conditions but is unimodal at high latitudes and in arid conditions. The negative association of EcM tree proportion on species diversity at low latitudes and in humid conditions is likely due to more negative plant-soil microbial interactions in these regions. These findings extend our knowledge on the mechanisms shaping global patterns in plant species diversity from a belowground view.
Authors
- Natália Targhetta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1778-4051)
- Stanisław Miścicki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0252-5121)
- Jean‐François Bastin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2602-7247)
- Marijn Bauters (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0978-6639)
- Somaiah Sundarapandian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7860-091X)
- Roberto Cazzolla Gatti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5130-8492)
- А. Shvidenko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7640-2151)
- Selvadurai Dayanandan
- Ashaq Ahmad Dar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7508-438X)
- Mirco Rodeghiero (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3228-4557)
- Emil Cienciala (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1254-4254)
- Ervan Rutishauser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1182-4032)
- Francis Q. Brearley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5053-5693)
- Chengyang Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3682-439X)
- Justin Kassi
- Jan Altman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4879-5773)
- Hua‐Feng Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0218-1728)
- Jochen Schöngart (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7696-9657)
- Alain Paquette (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-9674)
- Rodrigo Vieira Leite (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7840-3905)
- William J. McDonald
- Huicui Lu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9450-9681)
- María Teresa Fernández Piedade (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7320-0498)
- Pascal Boeckx (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3998-0010)
- Sharif A. Mukul (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6955-2469)
- Emma Mackintosh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9367-7164)
- Svetlana Bondarchuk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3641-5203)
- Liudmila Mukhortova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1390-9091)
- Eben N. Broadbent (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4488-4237)
- M. Socorro González‐Elizondo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4047-154X)
- Plínio Sist (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4565-4417)
- Axel Dalberg Poulsen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7651-6439)
- Radovan Nevenić
- Andy Hector (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1309-7716)
- José Javier Corral‐Rivas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2851-7517)
- Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5081-9936)
- Biao Zhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9858-7943)
- Michael R. Ngugi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3087-7634)
- Daniel José Vega-Nieva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1463-6523)
- Dmitry E. Kucher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7919-3487)
- V.N. Karminov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9298-956X)
- Bernhard Schmid (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8430-3214)
- Bruno Hérault (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6950-7286)
- Wenqi Song (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9669-3128)
- Krzysztof Stereńczak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9556-0144)
- Radim Matula (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7460-0100)
- Foma K. Vozmitel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6913-4811)
- Ilija Djordjević (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9499-3565)
- Hans Pretzsch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4958-1868)
- Alessio Collalti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4980-8487)
- Juan Gabriél Álvarez‐González (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5206-9128)
- Gaia Vaglio Laurin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6728-3557)
- Kanda Naveen Babu
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- Anny Estelle N’Guessan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5453-1419)
- Anna E. Kvashnina (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9951-3003)
- Irié C. Zo‐Bi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0982-8579)
- Elisa Grieco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7448-6125)
- Sophie Brennan
- Abel Monteagudo Mendoza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1047-845X)
- Elizabeth Kearsley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0046-3606)
- Leonid Krivobokov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4105-6281)
- G. G. Polyakova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5227-0115)
- Carine Klauberg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6898-5593)
- Akane Abbasi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1111-8752)
- E.S. Lonkina (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0976-3330)
- A. I. Bondarev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5909-0870)
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- Teresa J. Eyre (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4181-4145)
- G.J. Nabuurs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9761-074X)
- Stephanie Shooner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4374-9455)
- Marc Parren
- Ferry Slik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3988-7019)
- Peter B. Reich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4424-662X)
- Nobuo Imai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-7693)
- Victor J. Neldner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4233-4549)
- Florian Wittmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9180-356X)
- Connie J. Clark (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3083-9179)
- Mohammed Latif Khan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6849-0307)
- María Guadalupe Nava‐Miranda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5983-2053)
- Jesús Aguirre‐Gutiérrez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9190-3229)
- Jingjing Liang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9439-9320)
- Anna S. Vozmishcheva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1597-6685)
- Елена Тихонова (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4641-3735)
- Martin Svátek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2328-4627)
- Florian Kraxner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3832-6236)
- J Naveenkumar
- John R. Poulsen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1532-9808)
- Javid Ahmad Dar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2018-8376)
- Lorenzo Frizzera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3150-8395)
- Rodolfo Vásquez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2282-5009)
- Purabi Saikia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5481-282X)
- Zehao Shen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5954-3286)
- Dmitry Schepaschenko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-4990)
- Luciana F. Alves (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8944-1851)
- Adandé Belarmain Fandohan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8426-6839)
- Zhiyao Tang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0154-6403)
- Carlos Alfredo Joly (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7945-2805)
- Jaime Briseño‐Reyes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0732-4908)
- Simone Aparecida Vieira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-4181)
- E. I. Parfenova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3221-1457)
- David J. Harris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6801-2484)
- Kuswata Kartawinata (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9656-8095)
- Meredith L. Bastian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0000-9115)
- Narayanan Ayyappan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4383-557X)
- Tran Van Do (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9059-5842)
- Bienvenu H.K. Amani
- Eric B. Searle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3425-5998)
- Lin Jiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7114-0794)
- Goran Češljar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0438-1050)
- Tatiana A. Moskaliuk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2546-2311)
- Philippe Saner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9086-3074)
- Andrew R. Marshall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3261-7326)
- Géraldine Derroire (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7239-2881)
- Kirill Korznikov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2850-1483)
- Pablo L. Peri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5398-4408)
- Chengjun Ji
- Christian Ammer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4235-0135)
- Gunnar Keppel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7092-6149)
- Miroslav Svoboda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4050-3422)
- Sergio de‐Miguel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9738-0657)
- Xiangping Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8158-560X)
- Sebastian Pfautsch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4390-4195)
- Damiano Gianelle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7697-5793)
- Cang Hui (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3660-8160)
- Gerardo A. Aymard C. (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9405-0508)
- Jiří Doležal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5829-4051)
- Hans Verbeeck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-0168)
- N. M. Tchebakova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4208-6792)
- Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3445-1980)
- Liam Trethowan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0326-9828)
- Amit Kumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-5677)
- Douglas Sheil (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1166-6591)
- Chelsea Chisholm (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7739-0508)
- Andrzej M. Jagodziński (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6899-0985)
- Shan Luo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5408-847X)
- Xucai Pu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3679-4378)
- Jingyun Fang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0094-731X)
- Zhiheng Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0808-7780)
- Carlos Alberto Silva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7844-3560)
- Shaopeng Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9430-8879)
- Han Y. H. Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9477-5541)
- Yuan Luo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6936-5970)
- Moses B. Libalah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8848-8001)
- Alexandre F. Souza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7086-8628)
- Feng Jiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4655-1663)
- Aurélie Dourdain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6847-0434)
- Camille Volle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9071-7432)
Institutions
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)
- Fondazione Edmund Mach (IT)
- Manchester Metropolitan University (GB)
- Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RU)
- Tokyo University of Agriculture (JP)
- The Nature Conservancy (US)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Goddard Space Flight Center (US)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- University of Leeds (GB)
- Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (FR)
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (AT)
- National Academy of Sciences (US)
- Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (US)
- National Academy of Engineering (US)
- Université de Yaoundé I (CM)
- Universidade Federal de Viçosa (BR)
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- Qingdao Agricultural University (CN)
- African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (ZA)
- Universitat de Lleida (ES)
- Université du Québec à Montréal (CA)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Moscow State Forest University (RU)
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (GB)
- Warsaw University of Life Sciences (PL)
- University of South Australia (AU)
- Université Nangui Abrogoua (CI)
- Duke University (US)
- University of the Sunshine Coast (AU)
- Pondicherry University (IN)
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University (RU)
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) (BR)
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (BR)
- Lund University (SE)
- Yunnan University (CN)
- Universiti Brunei Darussalam (BN)
- Université de Montpellier (FR)
- Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango (MX)
- Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES)
- Peking University (CN)
- University of Zurich (CH)
- Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZ)
- Hainan University (CN)
- Purdue University West Lafayette (US)
- Stellenbosch University (ZA)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (BE)
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GB)
- University of French Guiana (GF)
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (DE)
- Yorkshire Cancer Research (GB)
- Field Museum of Natural History (US)
- Missouri Botanical Garden (US)
- Leverhulme Trust (GB)
- University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (CZ)
- National University of Austral Patagonia (AR)
- National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco (PE)
- Beijing Forestry University (CN)
- Ghent University (BE)
- University of Florida (US)
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (BR)
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Ecosens (Switzerland) (CH)
- Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (FR)
- Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve (RU)
- Forest Research Institute (HU)
- National Institute for Theoretical Physics (ZA)
- Istituto per il Sistema Produzione Animale in Ambiente Mediterraneo (IT)
- Institute of Dendrology (PL)
- Forest Industry Research Institute (VN)
- Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (DE)
- Institute of Forestry (RS)
- State Herbarium of South Australia (AU)
- Czech Academy of Sciences, Global Change Research Institute (CZ)
- Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity FEB RAS (RU)
- Institute of Forest Ecosystem Research (CZ)
- Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (ES)
- Centre for Forest Ecology and Productivity (RU)
- Institute of Biology of Karelian Research Centre (RU)
- Forests and Societies (FR)
- SRM University (IN)
- Queensland Department of Environment and Science (AU)
- Université d'Agriculture de Kétou (BJ)
- Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé (CI)
- Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany (CZ)
- Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (CI)
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (AU)
- Real Jardín Botánico (ES)
- Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos Occidentales Ezequiel Zamora (VE)
- Zvezda (Russia) (RU)
- Oxford BioMedica (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)
- Sholem Aleichem Amur State University (RU)
- Karelian Research Centre (RU)
- Baikal Nature Reserve (RU)
- Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences
- Sukachev Institute of Forest (RU)
- Siberian Federal University (RU)
- Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (CI)
- McGill University (CA)
- University of Life Sciences in Poznań (PL)
- Mendel University in Brno (CZ)
- Instituto Politécnico Nacional (MX)
- Concordia University (CA)
- Technical University of Munich (DE)
- United International University (BD)
- Western Sydney University (AU)
- Lakehead University (CA)
- University of Göttingen (DE)
- University of Newcastle Australia (AU)
- Newcastle University (GB)
- French Institute of Pondicherry (IN)
- Dr. Hari Singh Gour University (IN)
- Wageningen University & Research (NL)
- Banaras Hindu University (IN)
- University of Bologna (IT)
- Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Science Advances
- Published
- 2025-06-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt5743
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 8.75
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Purdue University
- Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University
- Division of Graduate Education