61-Low multifunctional redundancy of soil fungal d

61-Low multifunctional redundancy of soil fungal diversity at multiple scales.LETTERLowmultifunctionalredundancyofsoilfungaldiversityatmultiplescalesAkiraS.Mori,1*ForestIsbell,2SaoriFujii,1KobayashiMakoto,3ShunsukeMatsuoka4andTakashiOsono41GraduateSchoolofEnvironmentandInformationSciences,Yoko-hamaNationalUniversity,Yoko-hama,Kanagawa240-8501,Japan2DepartmentofEcology,EvolutionandBehavior,UniversityofMinnesota,SaintPaul,MN55108,USA3FieldScienceCenterforNorthernBiosphere,HokkaidoUniversity,Otoineppu438,Otoineppu,Hokkaido098-2501,Japan4CenterforEcologicalResearch,KyotoUniversity,Otsu,Shiga520-2113,Japan*Correspondence:E-mail:akira.s.mori@gmail.comAbstractTheorysuggeststhatbiodiversitymighthelpsustainmultipleecosystemfunctions.Toevaluatepossiblebiodiversity–multifunctionalityrelationshipsinanaturalsetting,weconsidereddifferentspatialscalesofdiversitymetricsforsoilfungiinthenorthernforestsofJapan.Wefoundthatmultifunctionalityincreasedwithincreasinglocalspeciesrichness,suggestingalimiteddeg