Landscape effects on global soil pathogenic fungal diversity across spatial scales

Y Lu; N Eisenhauer; G Patoine; Y Chen; A Heintz-Buschart; K Küsel; CE Wegner; F Buscot; X Liu; ASF Araujo; B Frey; FT Maestre; M Vadeboncoeur; L van den Brink; Q Ponette; M Didion; G Wohlfahrt; A Gaxiola; C Branquinho; H Meesenburg; K Fukuzawa; EC Adair; A Andrić; M Barna; Q Bei; H Bruelheide; A Caliman; R Canessa; M Carbognani; R Cazzolla Gatti; C Chen; CT Christiansen; M Danger; EA Davydov; MA de Graaff; C Delire; V Di Cecco; L Di Martino; I Djukic; S Drollinger; T Enoki; I Fekete; P Fransson; M Freitag; M Frenzel; RG Gavilán; S Glatzel; M Glushkova; G González; A da R. Gripp; P Haase; U Hamer; T Hishi; T Hiura; E Hornung; K Hoshizaki; H Jäger; JJ Jiménez; MJ Kelly-Slatten; S Kepfer-Rojas; Z Kotroczó; K Kriiska; H Kurokawa; K Lajtha; J Loehr; S Löfgren; V Maire; RL Martins; F Maunoury-Danger; I Melece; V Ochoa; I Ostonen; A Paquette; WC Parker; PL Peri; R Mast; A Petraglia; P Petřík; M Pușcaș; C Rebmann; PB Reich; MC Rillig; M Schädler; M Schaub; A Schmidt; Julia Seeber; HC Serrano; AI Sousa; S Scheu; A Stefanski; M Tomaselli; Z Tóth; SM Trevathan-Tackett; S Trogisch; PD Turtureanu; TM Ursu; SE Venn; A Verstraeten; J Vijayanathan; D Vujanović; M Wagner; M Weih; F Zehetner; CA Guerra

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Landscape effects on global soil pathogenic fungal diversity across spatial scales

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Landscape effects on global soil pathogenic fungal diversity across spatial scales

Y Lu, N Eisenhauer, G Patoine, Y Chen, A Heintz-Buschart, K Küsel, CE Wegner, F Buscot, X Liu, ASF Araujo, …

Nature Communications, Vol.17, pp.1-15

09/01/2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67929-5

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Abstract Growing evidence has shown that, apart from local environmental factors, changes in landscape-level factors by accelerated land-use change can also shape soil pathogenic fungal diversity. However, the global representativeness of such patterns remains unclear. Here, we assess how pathogenic fungal diversity in 511 soil samples worldwide responds to landscape factors, including landscape complexity index based on eight landscape metrics and quantity of different land cover types across six spatial scales (i.e., surrounding landscape, 250 m to 10,000 m radii from the sampling coordinate). We find that while soil variables explain over half of the variance, pathogenic fungal alpha diversity increases with landscape complexity and crop cover proportion, but decreases with grass and tree cover proportion, together explaining 23.4% of the total variance. Landscape factors have weaker impacts on beta diversity, explaining 13.0% of the variance. Across spatial scales, grassland ecosystems exhibit increasingly stronger responses to landscape variables compared to forest ecosystems. Landscape factors have a higher relative contribution to root-associated fungi than leaf/fruit/seed-associated fungi. Our results emphasize the importance of local factors and the complementary role of landscape patterns in shaping global soil pathogenic fungal distributions, highlighting scale-dependent effects across ecosystems and fungal functional groups.

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Title: Landscape effects on global soil pathogenic fungal diversity across spatial scales
Creators: Y Lu - Fudan University
N Eisenhauer - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
G Patoine - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Y Chen - Peking University
A Heintz-Buschart - University of Amsterdam
K Küsel - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
CE Wegner - Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
F Buscot - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
X Liu - State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems
ASF Araujo
B Frey - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
FT Maestre - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
M Vadeboncoeur - University of New Hampshire
L van den Brink - University of Concepción
Q Ponette - UCLouvain
M Didion - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
G Wohlfahrt - Universität Innsbruck
A Gaxiola - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
C Branquinho - University of Lisbon
H Meesenburg - Nordwestdeutsche Forstliche Versuchsanstalt
K Fukuzawa - Hokkaido University
EC Adair - University of Vermont
A Andrić - University of Novi Sad
M Barna - Slovak Academy of Sciences
Q Bei - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
H Bruelheide - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
A Caliman - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
R Canessa - Philipps University of Marburg
M Carbognani - University of Parma
R Cazzolla Gatti
C Chen - Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan
CT Christiansen - University of Copenhagen
M Danger - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
EA Davydov
MA de Graaff - Boise State University
C Delire - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
V Di Cecco
L Di Martino
I Djukic - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
S Drollinger - University of Göttingen
T Enoki - Kyushu University
I Fekete - University of Nyíregyháza
P Fransson
M Freitag - University of Münster
M Frenzel - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
RG Gavilán - Universidad Complutense de Madrid
S Glatzel - University of Vienna
M Glushkova
G González - US Forest Service
A da R. Gripp
P Haase - Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt/M
U Hamer - University of Münster
T Hishi - Kyushu University
T Hiura - The University of Tokyo
E Hornung - University of Veterinary Medicine
K Hoshizaki - Akita Prefectural University
H Jäger - Charles Darwin Foundation
JJ Jiménez - Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología
MJ Kelly-Slatten - Boise State University
S Kepfer-Rojas - University of Copenhagen
Z Kotroczó - Magyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem
K Kriiska - University of Tartu
H Kurokawa - Kyoto University
K Lajtha - Oregon State University
J Loehr - University of Helsinki
S Löfgren - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
V Maire - Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
RL Martins - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
F Maunoury-Danger - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
I Melece - University of Latvia
V Ochoa - Universidad de Jaén
I Ostonen - University of Tartu
A Paquette - Université du Québec à Montréal
WC Parker
PL Peri - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
R Mast - University of Tübingen
A Petraglia - University of Parma
P Petřík - Czech Academy of Sciences
M Pușcaș - Babeș-Bolyai University
C Rebmann - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
PB Reich - University of Minnesota
MC Rillig - Berlin Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research
M Schädler - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
M Schaub - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
A Schmidt - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Julia Seeber - Eurac Research
HC Serrano - University of Lisbon
AI Sousa
S Scheu - University of Göttingen
A Stefanski - University of Minnesota
M Tomaselli - University of Parma
Z Tóth - Institute for Soil Sciences
SM Trevathan-Tackett - RMIT University
S Trogisch - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
PD Turtureanu - Babeș-Bolyai University
TM Ursu - National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences
SE Venn - Deakin University
A Verstraeten - Research Institute for Nature and Forest
J Vijayanathan - Forest Research Institute Malaysia
D Vujanović - University of Novi Sad
M Wagner - Nordwestdeutsche Forstliche Versuchsanstalt
M Weih - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
F Zehetner - BOKU University
CA Guerra - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Publication Details: Nature Communications, Vol.17, pp.1-15
EISSN: 2041-1723
Series / Volume: 17
Publisher: Nature Research
Number of pages: 15
Identifiers: (EURAC)32190085
991007453467301241
Copyright: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Academic Unit: Institute for Alpine Environment
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Description coverage: none
Description audience: Scientific
Local Fields: Scientific
Author Names String: Lu Y, Eisenhauer N, Patoine G, Chen Y, Heintz-Buschart A, Küsel K, Wegner CE, Buscot F, Liu X, Araujo ASF, Frey B, Maestre FT, Vadeboncoeur M, van den Brink L, Ponette Q, Didion M, Wohlfahrt G, Gaxiola A, Branquinho C, Meesenburg H, Fukuzawa K, Adair EC, Andrić A, Barna M, Bei Q, Bruelheide H, Caliman A, Canessa R, Carbognani M, Cazzolla Gatti R, Chen C, Christiansen CT, Danger M, Davydov EA, de Graaff MA, Delire C, Di Cecco V, Di Martino L, Djukic I, Drollinger S, Enoki T, Fekete I, Fransson P, Freitag M, Frenzel M, Gavilán RG, Glatzel S, Glushkova M, González G, da R. Gripp A, Haase P, Hamer U, Hishi T, Hiura T, Hornung E, Hoshizaki K, Jäger H, Jiménez JJ, Kelly-Slatten MJ, Kepfer-Rojas S, Kotroczó Z, Kriiska K, Kurokawa H, Lajtha K, Loehr J, Löfgren S, Maire V, Martins RL, Maunoury-Danger F, Melece I, Ochoa V, Ostonen I, Paquette A, Parker WC, Peri PL, Mast R, Petraglia A, Petřík P, Pușcaș M, Rebmann C, Reich PB, Rillig MC, Schädler M, Schaub M, Schmidt A, Seeber J, Serrano HC, Sousa AI, Scheu S, Stefanski A, Tomaselli M, Tóth Z, Trevathan-Tackett SM, Trogisch S, Turtureanu PD, Ursu TM, Venn SE, Verstraeten A, Vijayanathan J, Vujanović D, Wagner M, Weih M, Zehetner F, Guerra CA

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