Ass.-Prof. Dr. Mark Anthony

 

 

 

 

Assistant Professor at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research

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mark.anthony@univie.ac.at

Mark Anthony’s research focuses on the ecology and evolution of fungi. By employing genomic tools to characterize the composition, diversity, and functioning of fungal communities, Mark and his group investigate how the forest mycobiome drives emergent forest functions, like forest productivity and soil carbon storage.

They also explore how soil fungi respond to ongoing environmental change, from invasive species to global warming. Recent work has encompassed multiple trophic levels, examining interactions among fungi, prokaryotes, plants, and animals. Current studies focus on the roles of mycorrhizal fungi in shaping tree responses to climate change, the functioning of common mycorrhizal fungal networks, the ecology of fungal endophytes, and microbiome engineering to manipulate plant growth, reproduction, and death. Mark was recently awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Ambizione Fellowship and a WWTF Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators grant.

Teaching

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 Publications

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Anthony MA. Does ectomycorrhizal fungal biodiversity affect tree growth? Fungal Ecology. 2025 Apr;74:101413. Epub 2025 Jan 23. doi: 10.1016/j.funeco.2025.101413

Zhang Y, Anthony MA, Yuan Q, Wang Y, Zhao P, Chen E et al. Capacity to form common mycorrhizal networks reduces the positive impact of clonal integration between plants. Physiologia Plantarum. 2025 Mar 15;177(2):e70149. doi: 10.1111/ppl.70149

Lopez A, Anthony M, Catalan-Dibene J, Ferrenberg S, Jordan S, Osborne B et al. Dryland fungi are spatially heterogeneous and resistant to global change drivers. Ecosphere. 2024 Dec 3;15(12):e70031. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.70031

Knorr MA, Contosta AR, Morrison EW, Muratore TJ, Anthony MA, Stoica I et al. Unexpected sustained soil carbon flux in response to simultaneous warming and nitrogen enrichment compared with single factors alone. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2024 Dec;8(12):2277–2285. Epub 2024 Sept 24. doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02546-x

Yu Q, He C, Anthony MA, Schmid B, Gessler A, Yang C et al. Decoupled responses of plants and soil biota to global change across the world's land ecosystems. Nature Communications. 2024 Nov 29;15(1):10369. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-54304-z