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Keywords: ecological niche modeling; microbiome; mycorrhizal fungi; niche envelope; species distribution modeling EN ecological niche modeling microbiome mycorrhizal fungi niche envelope species distribution modeling 508 511 4 06/18/21 20210715 NES 210715 Niche theory, the description of an organism's environmental requirements for survival and reproduction, has been a central tenet of ecology for decades (Hutchinson, 1957). Ecological niche modeling, microbiome, mycorrhizal fungi, niche envelope, species distribution modeling Because these large-scale models rarely incorporate microbial dynamics, these lines of inquiry can revolutionize not only the entire fields of microbial ecology and evolution, but ecosystem ecology as well. Mean annual temperature is a major structuring factor for the distribution of many organisms, including the plants that provide carbon for AM fungi in exchange for nutrients …