Fungal trophic modes were predicted from the resulting ASV table using the software package FUNGuild (Nguyen et al., 2016). Fungal ASVs assigned only to one trophic mode (symbiotrophy, saprotrophy, and pathotrophy) were included in the analyses, as environmental conditions can modify the guild of specific groups (Nguyen et al., 2016). For pathothrops the abundance of plant and animal pathogens was analyzed separately. The abundances of symbiotrophs of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungi were also analyzed separately.
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