Abstract
SummaryFungi can be found in almost all ecosystems. Some of them can even survive in harsh, anthropogenically transformed environments, such as post‐industrial soils. In order to verify how the soil fungal diversity may be changed by pollution, two soil samples from each of the 28 post‐industrial sites were collected. Each soil sample was characterized in terms of concentration of heavy metals and petroleum derivatives. To identify soil fungal communities, fungal internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) amplicon was sequenced for each sample using Illumina MiSeq platform. There were significant differences in the community structure and taxonomic diversity among the analysed samples. The highest taxon richness and evenness were observed in the non‐polluted sites, and lower numbers of taxa were identified in multi‐polluted soils. The presence of monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, gasoline and mineral oil was determined as the factors driving the differences in the mycobiome. Furthermore, in the culture‐based selection experiment, two main groups of fungi growing on polluted media were identified – generalists able to live in the presence of pollution, and specialists adapted to the usage of BTEX as a sole source of energy. Our selection experiment proved that it is long‐term soil contamination that shapes the community, rather than temporary addition of pollutant.
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