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Purpose of Review <p>Climate change is reshaping fungal ecology globally, with increasing consequences on ecosystem function, agriculture, and human health. This review examines how climate-driven environmental change and wildfire disturbance influence fungal community structure, adaptation, and disease risk.</p> Recent Findings <p>Rising temperatures, altered precipitation, soil acidification, aridification, and increased fire frequency are driving shifts in fungal distributions and their functional traits, favoring stress-tolerant, opportunistic, and pathogenic taxa. Wildfires restructure soil mycobiomes, enrich pyrophilic and saprotrophic fungi, and enhance spore dispersal. Pathogens such as <i>Coccidioides</i>, <i>Aspergillus</i>, and <i>Fusarium</i> are increasingly associated with post-fire environments and elevated exposure risk. Concurrently, agricultural antifungal use and climate-driven resource stress may accelerate antifungal resistance and host susceptibility.</p> Summary <p>Climate change and wildfire act as coupled selective forces shaping fungal adaptation and disease emergence. Integrated environmental surveillance and public health strategies are urgently needed to mitigate future fungal threats.</p>

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Environmental Fungi at the Climate-Fire Interface: Implications for Emerging Pathogenicity

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  • 发表日期：

    2026年3月28日

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  • Pranava Jana,
  • Ushaswini Namburu,
  • Praneel Bonthala,
  • Shaun Liu,
  • Tejas Bouklas

摘要

Purpose of Review

Climate change is reshaping fungal ecology globally, with increasing consequences on ecosystem function, agriculture, and human health. This review examines how climate-driven environmental change and wildfire disturbance influence fungal community structure, adaptation, and disease risk.

Recent Findings

Rising temperatures, altered precipitation, soil acidification, aridification, and increased fire frequency are driving shifts in fungal distributions and their functional traits, favoring stress-tolerant, opportunistic, and pathogenic taxa. Wildfires restructure soil mycobiomes, enrich pyrophilic and saprotrophic fungi, and enhance spore dispersal. Pathogens such as Coccidioides, Aspergillus, and Fusarium are increasingly associated with post-fire environments and elevated exposure risk. Concurrently, agricultural antifungal use and climate-driven resource stress may accelerate antifungal resistance and host susceptibility.

Summary

Climate change and wildfire act as coupled selective forces shaping fungal adaptation and disease emergence. Integrated environmental surveillance and public health strategies are urgently needed to mitigate future fungal threats.