Background In forest ecosystems, communities of ectomycorrhizal fungi (ECM) are
influenced by several biotic and abiotic factors. To understand their underlying dynamics …

The ecology of fungi, and the sub‐field of community ecology of ectomycorrhizal (ECM)
fungi, has changed significantly since the introduction of PCR and its application to fungal …

Global species richness patterns of soil micro‐organisms remain poorly understood
compared to macro‐organisms. We use a global analysis to disentangle the global …

Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi are ubiquitous in forest ecosystems and form symbiotic
associations with roots of woody plants. They have important roles in both carbon and …

Mycorrhiza is a mutualistic symbiosis between some plant species and a diverse group of
soil fungi. Mycorrhizal symbiosis is categorized into discrete types based on the structural …

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) markers have been used in many studies to distinguish related
species of ectomycorrhizal fungi or genotypes of a single species. These markers have been …

Gondwanan vegetation, and the Australian region in particular, is species rich for
ectomycorrhizal fungi in epigeous and hypogeous forms with over 100 species recorded in …

Mycelial biomass estimates in soils are usually obtained by measuring total hyphal length or
by measuring the amount of fungal-specific biomarkers such as ergosterol and phospholipid …

Wooded meadows are seminatural plant communities that support high diversity of various
taxa. Due to changes in land use, wooded meadows have severely declined during the last …

A number of methods are available for those researchers considering the addition of
molecular analyses of ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungi to their research projects and weighing …