And if you want to know more about foliar endophytic fungi 🍄, keep an eye on @michakoehlerbotany.bsky.social 's work on the topic (7/7)

With this, we show that trait identity and intraindividual variability relate to foliar endophytic fungal communities. This suggests that these plant-fungi interactions are closely related to plant functioning and evidence the ecological relevance of intraindividual trait variability (6/7)

Last, the results for the phylogenetic signal indicate that fungi from the same class respond more similarly to functional traits. This suggests that some aspects of habitat specificity of leaf endophytes are conserved across deep evolutionary lineages (5/7)

The results also show that the diversity of some groups of fungi is related to leaf intraindividual variability, meaning that higher diversity of leaf phenotypes within the same crown relates to a higher diversity of organisms associated to that tree 🌿☘️🍃🍂🍁 (4/7)

We found that a leaf "fast" strategy (characterized by high values of traits such as SLA or leaf P and low values of leaf C:N) relates to a higher diversity of different groups of endophytic fungi, especially in the case of Basidiomycota (3/7)

To explore how foliar endophytic fungi 🍄 (which reside within the tissues of leaves in plants) relate to leaf phenotype, we merged data on endophytic fungi (from doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...) and plant functional traits (from doi.org/10.1111/1365...) collected on the same leaves in 8 tree species (2/7)