"Unraveling the mechanisms underlying the maintenance of species diversity is a central pursuit in ecology. It has been hypothesized that ectomycorrhizal (EcM) in contrast to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can reduce tree species diversity in local communities, which remains to be tested at the global scale. To address this gap, we analyzed global forest inventory data and revealed that the relationship between tree species richness and EcM tree proportion varied along environmental gradients. Specifically, the relationship is more negative at low latitudes and in moist conditions but is unimodal at high latitudes and in arid conditions. The negative association of EcM tree proportion on species diversity at low latitudes and in humid conditions is likely due to more negative plant-soil microbial interactions in these regions. These findings extend our knowledge on the mechanisms shaping global patterns in plant species diversity from a belowground view." https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:7915 doi:10.1126/sciadv.adt5743 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Science Jiang, Feng Pu, Xucai Schmid, Bernhard Reich, Peter B. Liang, Jingjing Abbasi, Akane O. Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Jesús Almeyda Zambrano, Angelica Maria Altman, Jan Álvarez-González, Juan Gabriel Alves, Luciana F. Amani, Bienvenu H. K. Ammer, Christian Aymard, Gerardo A. Babu Kanda, Naveen Bastian, Meredith L. Bastin, Jean-Francois Bauters, Marijn Boeckx, Pascal Bondarchuk, Svetlana N. Bondarev, Alexander Brearley, Francis Q. Brennan, Sophie Briseño-Reyes, Jaime Broadbent, Eben N. Češljar, Goran Chen, Han Y. H. Chisholm, Chelsea Choi, WookJin Cienciala, Emil Clark, Connie J. Collalti, Alessio Corral-Rivas, José Javier Ahmad Dar, Javid Dayanandan, Selvadurai de-Miguel, Sergio Ahmad Dar, Ashaq Derroire, Géraldine Djordjević, Ilija Van Do, Tran Doležal, Jiří Dourdain, Aurélie Eyre, Teresa Belarmain Fandohan, Adandé Frizzera, Lorenzo Cazzolla Gatti, Roberto Gianelle, Damiano González Elizondo, M. Socorro Grieco, Elisa Harris, David J. Hector, Andy Hérault, Bruno Hui, Cang Imai, Nobuo Jagodziński, Andrzej M. Ji, Chengjun Jiang, Lin Joly, Carlos A. Karminov, Viktor N. Kartawinata, Kuswata Kassi, Justin N. Kearsley, Elizabeth Keppel, Gunnar Latif Khan, Mohammed Klauberg, Carine Korznikov, Kirill A. Kothandaraman, Subashree Kraxner, Florian Krivobokov, Leonid Kucher, Dmitry Kumar, Amit Kvashnina, Anna Vaglio Laurin, Gaia Vieira Leite, Rodrigo Libalah, Moses B. Lonkina, Ekaterina S. Lu, Huicui Luo, Shan Luo, Yuan Mackintosh, Emma Marshall, Andrew R. Vásquez Martínez, Rodolfo Matula, Radim McDonald, William Narayanan, Ayyappan Nava-Miranda, María Guadalupe Naveenkumar, Jagadeesan Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel Miścicki, Stanisław Moskalyuk, Tatyana Mukhortova, Liudmila Mukul, Sharif A. Nabuurs, Gert-Jan Neldner, Victor J. Nevenić, Radovan N’Guessan, Anny E. Ngugi, Michael Paquette, Alain Parfenova, Elena I. Parren, Marc Parthasarathy, Narayanaswamy Peri, Pablo L. Pfautsch, Sebastian Piedade, Maria T. F. Polyakova, Galina Dalberg Poulsen, Axel Poulsen, John R. Pretzsch, Hans Rodeghiero, Mirco Rutishauser, Ervan Saikia, Purabi Saner, Philippe Schepaschenko, Dmitry Schöngart, Jochen Searle, Eric B. Sheil, Douglas Shen, Zehao Shooner, Stephanie Shvidenko, Anatoly Silva, Carlos A. Sist, Plinio Slik, Ferry Song, Wenqi Souza, Alexandre F. Stereńczak, Krzysztof Sundarapandian, Somaiah Svátek, Martin Svoboda, Miroslav Tang, Zhiyao Targhetta, Natalia Tchebakova, Nadja Tikhonova, Elena Trethowan, Liam Vega-Nieva, Daniel José Verbeeck, Hans Vieira, Simone A. Volle, Camille Vozmishcheva, Anna S. Vozmitel, Foma K. Wang, Hua-Feng Wang, Shaopeng Wang, Xiangping Wittmann, Florian Zheng, Chengyang Zhu, Biao Zo-Bi, Irié Casimir Fang, Jingyun Wang, Zhiheng Science advances volume: 11(24) eng application/pdf 1943712 bytes info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2025 Mycorrhizal symbioses and tree diversity in global forest communities