Journal article
Riparian fungal communities respond to land-use mediated changes in soil properties and vegetation structure
V Waymouth, RE Miller, S Kasel, F Ede, A Bissett, C Aponte
Plant and Soil | SPRINGER | Published : 2022
Abstract
Purpose: Owing to their topographic location and nutrient rich soils, riparian forests are often converted to pastures for grazing. In recent decades, remnant riparian forests cleared for grazing pastures have been restored with native species. The impacts of such land-use changes on soil fungal communities are unclear, despite the central roles that soil fungi play in key ecosystem processes. We investigated how soil fungal taxonomic and functional composition are affected by land-use change at different depths, and if variation in soil fungal communities is related to edaphic properties and extant vegetation. Methods: The study was conducted in six waterways in south-eastern Australia, eac..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Open Access funding enabled and organized by CAUL and its Member Institutions This study was funded by Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment from the Ecological Society of Australia, Melbourne Water, and the Madeleine Selwyn Smith Memorial Scholarship. Vicky Waymouth was a recipient of a Research Training Program Scholarship and the Faculty of Science write-up Award supported by the Albert Shimmins Fund. Cybec Foundation supported Rebecca Miller during her lectureship at the University of Melbourne. Sabine Kasel is supported by the Integrated Forest Ecosystem Research Program funded by the Victorian Government Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning. We would like to acknowledge the contributions of the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments (BASE) and Australian Microbiome consortiums for the generation of genetic data for this study. The Australian Microbiome initiative is supported by funding from Bioplatforms Australia and the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) through the Australian Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), Parks Australia through the Bush Blitz program funded by the Australian Government and BHP, and CSIRO. Soil collection and field sampling was conducted under Parks Victoria permit number 10008494.