Lichen and Lichenicolous Fungal Communities Tested as Suitable Systems for the Application of Cross-Taxon Analysis

Lichens are outstanding examples of fungal symbioses that form long-lived structures, the lichen thalli, in which a multiplicity other microorganisms hosted. Among these, microfungi seem to establish diverse trophic relationships with their hosts. The most specialised these fungi parasitic lichenicolous fungi, diversity has hardly been explained as proxy for species. Here, we used an exemplar dataset well-studied alpine community composed 63 and 41 species tested it verify strength co-occurrences two groups predictive co-correspondence analyses. results showed distribution abundances affects abundance variation supports our hypothesis use lichens surrogates surrogacy analysis.