Fungal communities living within leaves of native Hawaiian dicots are structured by landscape-scale variables as well as by host plants
J. L. Darcy, G. M. Cobian, S. O. I. Swift, G. L. Zahn, B. A. Perry, A. A. Amend
The paper examines foliar endophytic fungi in native Hawaiian dicots, finding that their communities are shaped by geographic distance, host plant phylogeny, and environmental factors like evapotranspiration.
bioRxiv · Jun 26, 2020Ecology