dc.contributor.author	Embury, Emily Lynn
dc.date.accessioned	2022-05-15T02:59:56Z
dc.date.available	2022-05-15T02:59:56Z
dc.date.issued	2022-05-16
dc.description	45 pages; illustrations.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Human activities have driven environmental changes such as soil warming, nitrogen enrichment, and non-native plant invasions, and all three of these global change drivers have been shown to alter soil fungal communities. Soil fungi play important roles in decomposition, carbon sequestration, and nutrient cycling processes so it is important to understand how fungal communities are impacted by different global change drivers. To further understand the impacts of soil warming, nitrogen enrichment, and non-native plant invasions on soil fungi, I sought to analyze seven previously published studies together to look for generalizable patterns in how fungal communities respond to these global change drivers. I analyzed sequence data from seven studies and measured species richness, community composition, effect sizes of indicator species, and the distribution of trophic modes across treatments. I found significant variation of species richness in one study, significant variation of community composition in two studies, five key indicator species (none were common across all treatments), and no significant variation in trophic mode distribution. These results suggest that fungal responses to disturbance are highly dependent on the type of disturbance and site conditions.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Embury, Emily Lynn. (2022, May 16). Soil fungal responses to multiple global change stressors. Retrieved from:	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://digitalrepository.wheatoncollege.edu/handle/11040/32526
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Wheaton College. (Norton, Mass.)	en_US
dc.title	Soil fungal responses to multiple global change stressors.	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US

Soil fungal responses to multiple global change stressors.

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