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Fungal biodiversity in the periglacial soil of Dosdè Glacier (Valtellina, Northern Italy)
Author(s) -
Rodolfi Marinella,
Longa Claudia Maria Oliveira,
Pertot Ilaria,
Tosi Solveig,
Savino Elena,
Guglielminetti Maria,
Altobelli Elisa,
Del Frate Giuseppe,
Picco Anna Maria
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of basic microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.58
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1521-4028
pISSN - 0233-111X
DOI - 10.1002/jobm.201500392
Subject(s) - microfungi , psychrophile , lichen , glacier , biodiversity , ecology , habitat , soil water , geology , biology , physical geography , geography , paleontology , bacteria
Periglacial areas are one of the least studied habitats on Earth, especially in terms of their fungal communities. In this work, both molecular and culture‐dependent methods have been used to analyse the microfungi in soils sampled on the front of the East Dosdè Glacier (Valtellina, Northern Italy). Although this survey revealed a community that was rich in fungal species, a distinct group of psychrophilic microfungi has not been detected. Most of the isolated microfungi were mesophiles, which are well adapted to the sensitive climatic changes that occur in this alpine environment. A discrepancy in the results that were obtained by means of the two diagnostic approaches suggests that the used molecular methods cannot entirely replace traditional culture‐dependent methods, and vice versa.