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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2023, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (5): 1225-1234.doi: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.202305.007

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Diversity and community assembly mechanism of soil ectomycorrhizal fungi in urban parks of Baotou City, China

WANG Yonglong1, ZHANG Xuan1,2, XU Ying1, ZHAO Yanling1, WANG Jiaqi1, ZHANG Yujia1, YANG Yanci1*   

  1. 1Faculty of Biological Science and Technology, Baotou Teacher's College, Baotou 014030, Inner Mongolia, China;
    2CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
  • Received:2023-01-13 Accepted:2023-03-07 Online:2023-05-15 Published:2023-11-15

Abstract: Ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi play an important role in forest ecosystems. However, little is known about the mechanisms driving diversity and community composition of soil EM fungi in urban forest parks which are intensively affected by anthropogenic activities. In this study, we investigated the EM fungal community using Illumina high-throughput sequencing with soil samples collected from three typical forest parks, including Olympic Park, Laodong Park, and Aerding Botanical Garden of Baotou City. The results showed that soil EM fungi richness index followed a pattern of Laodong Park (146.43±25.17) > Aerding Botanical Garden (102.71±15.31) > Olympic Park (68.86±6.83). Russula, Geopora, Inocybe, Tomentella, Hebeloma, Sebacina, Amanita, Rhizopogon, Amphinema, and Lactarius were the dominant genera in the three parks. EM fungal community composition was significantly different among the three parks. Results of linear discriminant analysis effect size (LEfSe) indicated that all parks had biomarker EM fungi that exhibiting significantly different abundance. The normalized stochasticity ratio (NST) and the inferring community assembly mechanisms by phylogenetic-bin-based null model analysis (iCAMP) showed that both stochastic and deterministic processes determined soil EM fungal communities in the three urban parks, with a dominant role of the stochastic process. Drift and dispersal limitation in the stochastic process and homogeneous selection in the deterministic process were the dominant ecological processes of soil EM fungal community assembly in the three urban parks.

Key words: Baotou City, urban forest park, ectomycorrhizal fungi, ecological process