Sydney I. Glassman

TL;DR: This work isolates different geographic and local processes hypothesized to shape fungal community composition and activity in pine forests across the continental United States and shows that the principal ecological processes controlling community structure and function operate at different scales.

TL;DR: It is found that ECM and saprotroph richness did not show spatial structure and did not co-vary with any soil resource, and enzymatic activity on ECM root tips took from the same soil cores used for bulk enzyme analysis did not correlate with the activity of any enzyme measured in the bulk soil, suggesting that ECm contributions to larger-scale soil C and nutrient cycling may occur primarily via extramatrical hyphae outside the rhizosphere.

TL;DR: P pH and organic matter primarily drive environmental filtering in total soil fungal communities and that pH and cation exchange capacity—and, surprisingly, not host species—were the largest factors affecting EMF community composition, supporting an emerging paradigm that pH may play a central role in the assembly of all soil‐mediated systems.

TL;DR: It is shown that decomposition responses to climate depend on the composition of microbial communities, which is not considered in terrestrial carbon models, and that bacterial communities might be less functionally redundant than fungi with regards to decomposition.

TL;DR: It is found that ECM spore bank fungi survived the fire and dominated the colonization of in situ and bioassay seedlings, but there were specific fire adapted fungi such as Rhizopogon olivaceotinctus that increased in abundance after the fire.