Soil Fungal Community and Potential Function in Different Forest Ecosystems

Forests acting as carbon storage and sequestration play an essential role in the global nutrient cycle, which fungi are active participants. The forests cover almost all regions from boreal, temperate to subtropical tropical forests. relative proportion of sequestrated forest soil varies approximately 85% terrestrial pool boreal 60% 50% rainforests. Fungi decomposers organic matter root-associated mediators belowground transport respiration key drivers cycle For example, saprophytic can degrade release into soil, whereas symbiotic could form symbiosis with plants, through plant benefit each other flow. Given importance ecological environment, this paper summarizes terms fungal diversity function ecosystems.