Characteristics of soil filamentous fungi communities isolated from various micro-relief forms in the high Arctic tundra [Bellsund Region, Spitsbergen]

• Autorzy: Kurek E , Kornillowicz-Kowalska T. , Slomka A. , Melke J.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Saprotrophic filamentous microfungi were isolated by means of the soil dilution method from soil samples collected from four locations in the Bellsund region of Spitsbergen (77°33'N, 14°31'E) representing the following forms of surface micro-relief: an old stormbank, a sorted circle, a frost fissure between tundra polygons, and the central part of a tundra polygon. The fungal isolates were identified and screened for their ability to grow at low temperatures. The oligotrophy of psychrophilic and psychrotrophic strains was then determined as the ability of growth on silica gel without a C source added. Differences in some physico-chemical properties were found between the soils sampled from the four sites. A total of 89 taxa from 17 genera were isolated. Most of the isolates were species of Mortierella, Penicillium, Chrysosporium and Phialophora, and half of them were psychro- philes. Fungal communities isolated from a frost fissure between tundra polygons (site 3) and from the central part of a tundra polygon (site 4) were dominated by psychrophiles but those isolated from an old stormbank (site 1) and a sorted circle (site 2) were predominantly psychrotrophic. Oligopsychrophilic taxa accounted for 27% and oligopsychrotrophic for 20% of all the isolated taxa but only from 0.7% to 11.7% and from 1.2% to 6.3% of the total number of cfu (colony forming unit) isolated from an individual site, respectively. The results of the present study suggest that the abundance of fungi in Arctic soil is mostly affected by the content of organic matter in the A horizon and the plant cover, but other factors, such as the stage of soil development and the micro-relief of the surface, are more important for species richness of fungal communities. Key words: Arctic, tundra, filamentous fungi, species richness, ecology.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

ecology; species richness; fungi community; filamentous fungi; tundra; Bellsund Region; Spitsbergen; Arctic; fungi

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Polish Polar Research
• Rocznik: 2007
• Tom: 28
• Numer: 1
• Opis fizyczny: p.57-73,fig.,ref.

Twórcy

autor

Kurek E

• Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Akademicka 19, 20-033 Lublin, Poland

autor

Kornillowicz-Kowalska T.

autor

Slomka A.

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Melke J.

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• Received: 1 September 2006 Accepted: 20 February 2007