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SUBMITTER: Zimmerman NB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3420199 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zimmerman Naupaka B NB Vitousek Peter M PM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120725 32
We surveyed endophytic fungal communities in leaves of a single tree species (Metrosideros polymorpha) across wide environmental gradients (500-5,500 mm of rain/y; 10-22 °C mean annual temperature) spanning short geographic distances on Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawai'i. Using barcoded amplicon pyrosequencing at 13 sites (10 trees/site; 10 leaves/tree), we found very high levels of diversity within sites (a mean of 551 ± 134 taxonomic units per site). However, among-site diversity contributed even more ...[more]