Ecologists have long sought to understand global patterns of biological diversity (,). Most
work on this topic has focused on visible aboveground organisms that can easily be …

Introduction The kingdom Fungi is one of the most diverse groups of organisms on Earth,
and they are integral ecosystem agents that govern soil carbon cycling, plant nutrition, and …

Tedersoo et al.(Research Article, 28 November 2014, p. 1078) present a compelling study
regarding patterns of biodiversity of fungi, carried out at a scale unprecedented to date for …

How the multiple facets of soil fungal diversity vary worldwide remains virtually unknown,
hindering the management of this essential species-rich group. By sequencing high …

Many soil bacteria and fungi remain unclassified at the highest taxonomic ranks (eg phyla
level), which hampers our ability to assess the ecology and functional capabilities of these …

Schadt and Rosling (Technical Comment, 26 June 2015, p. 1438) argue that primer-
template mismatches neglected the fungal class Archaeorhizomycetes in a global soil …

The immense diversity of soil bacterial communities has stymied efforts to characterize
individual taxa and document their global distributions. We analyzed soils from 237 …

Soil biodiversity is immense, with an estimated 10–100 million organisms belonging to over
5000 taxa in a handful of soil. In spite of the importance of soil biodiversity for ecosystem …

Fungi play key roles in ecosystems as mutualists, pathogens, and decomposers. Current
estimates of global species richness are highly uncertain, and the importance of stochastic …

Fungi are a diverse and highly abundant group of organisms found in soils worldwide.
Understanding fungi is essential as they are key drivers of below-ground ecosystem …