Long-lasting modification of soil fungal diversity associated with the introduction of rabbits to a remote sub-Antarctic archipelago

Biology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Pansu, Johan ^a,b   Winkworth, Richard C ^c,d   Hennion, Françoise ^e   Gielly, Ludovic ^a,b   Taberlet, Pierre ^a,b   Choler, Philippe ^a,b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNITEC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^d MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Environmental DNA; Invasive species; Kerguelen islands; Metabarcoding; Soil communities

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; BIOTIC FACTOR; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; HERBIVORE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MAMMAL; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SOIL BIOTA; SOIL EROSION;

FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; KERGUELEN; KERGUELEN ISLANDS;

MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FUNGUS; HERBIVORY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; HERBIVORY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISLANDS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RABBITS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84941591544     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0408     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Ettema CH, Wardle DA. 2002 Spatial soil ecology. Trends Ecol. Evol. 17, 177-183. (doi:10.1016/S0169-5347(02)02496-5).
2. Bardgett RD, Wardle DA. 2003 Herbivore-mediated linkages between aboveground and belowground communities. Ecology 84, 2258-2268. (doi:10.1890/02-0274).
3. Zhou X, Wang J, Hao Y, Wang Y. 2010 Intermediate grazing intensities by sheep increase soil bacterial diversities in an Inner Mongolian steppe. Biol. Fertil. Soils 46, 817-824. (doi:10.1007/s00374-010-0487-3).
4. Frenot Y, Chown SL, Whinam J, Selkirk PM, Convey P, Skotnicki M, Bergstrom DM. 2005 Biological invasions in the Antarctic: Extent, impacts and implications. Biol. Rev. 80, 45-72. (doi:10.1017/S1464793104006542).
5. Chapuis JL, Frenot Y, Lebouvier M. 2004 Recovery of native plant communities after eradication of rabbits from the subantarctic Kerguelen Islands, and influence of climate change. Biol. Conserv. 117, 167-179. (doi:10.1016/S0006-3207(03)00290-8).
6. Wall DH. 2005 Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in terrestrial habitats of Antarctica. Antarct. Sci. 17, 523-531. (doi:10.1017/S0954102005002944).
7. Steiman R, Frenot Y, Sage L, Seigle-Murandi F, Guiraud P. 1995 Contribution to the knowledge of the mycoflora of Kerguelen Islands. Cryptogamie Mycol. 16, 277-291.
8. Taberlet P et al. 2012 Soil sampling and isolation of extracellular DNA from large amount of starting material suitable for metabarcoding studies. Mol. Ecol. 21, 1816-1820. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05317.x).
9. Taberlet P et al. 2007 Power and limitations of the chloroplast trnl (UAA) intron for plant DNA barcoding. Nucleic Acids Res. 35, e14. (doi:10.1093/nar/gkl938).
10. Epp LS et al. 2012 New environmental metabarcodes for analysing soil DNA: potential for studying past and present ecosystems. Mol. Ecol. 21, 1821-1833. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05537.x).
11. Anderson MJ. 2001 A new method for nonparametric multivariate analysis of variance. Austral Ecol. 26, 32-46. (doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2001.01070.pp.x).
12. R Core Team. 2013 R: A language and environment for statistical computing. Vienna, Austria: R Foundation for Statistical Computing.
13. Oksanen J et al. 2015 vegan: Community Ecology Package. R package v. 2.2-1. See http://CRAN.Rproject.org/package=vegan.
14. Roy J, Albert CH, Ibanez S, Saccone P, Zinger L, Choler P, Clément JC, Lavergne S, Geremia RA. 2013 Microbes on the cliff: Alpine cushion plants structure bacterial and fungal communities. Front. Microbiol. 4, 64. (doi:10.3389/fmicb.2013.00064).
15. Waldrop MP, Zak DR, Blackwood CB, Curtis CD, Tilman D. 2006 Resource availability controls fungal diversity across a plant diversity gradient. Ecol. Lett. 9, 1127- 1135. (doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00965.x).