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ArticleOecologia2026

Leaf status drives shifts in both community composition and trophic mode of foliar endophytic fungi via variation in functional traits in Tibetan alpine meadow.

Hongyuan Kan, Shiting Zhang

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Article in Oecologia, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Endophytic Fungi from WildJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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Hongyuan KanState Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, 222 Tianshui South Road, Lanzhou, 730000, China.
Shiting ZhangState Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, 222 Tianshui South Road, Lanzhou, 730000, China. zhangsht@lzu.edu.cn.

Funding

Gansu Provincial Department of Science and Technology 23ZDNA009National Natural Science Foundation of China 31870435
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Foliar endophytic fungi (FEF) influence plant performance and early litter decay, yet whether leaf senescence imposes common assembly rules across hosts remains unclear. Here, we collected paired live and senescent leaves from 11 plant species across three spatial blocks (66 FEF samples) in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau and characterized FEF communities and leaf functional traits. Our results showed that leaf status, host species, and their interaction structured FEF community composition. Compared with live leaves, senescent leaves harbored higher α-diversity, exhibited lower among-host β-dispersion, and had more core taxa shared across hosts. Senescent leaves showed reduced relative abundance of symbiotrophic modes and increased relative abundance of saprotrophic modes compared to live leaves. At the community level, senescent leaves showed depleted nitrogen and hemicellulose but enriched cellulose and lignin, redirecting trait-community linkages from soluble resources to recalcitrant polymers. The findings highlight that leaf status is a primary driver of endophytic fungal community assembly, and reveal adaptive shifts in endophytic fungal communities associated with leaf senescence.

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Plant LeavesEndophytesFungiGrasslandTibetFoliar endophytic fungiFungal trophic modeLeaf structural carbohydrateLive leavesSenescent leaves

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PMID41949755

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