Half a century ago in an Amazonian rainforest, Went and Stark [1, 2] observed 'endotrophic
mycorrhizal'hyphae proliferating in leaf litter adjacent to mycorrhizal roots. They inferred the …

Forests acting as carbon storage and sequestration play an essential role in the global
nutrient cycle, in which fungi are active participants. The forests cover almost all regions from …

Key message Authors have analyzed the possible correlation between measurements/
indicators of forest structure and species richness of many taxonomic or functional groups …

Soil fungi are key players in nutrient cycles as decomposers, mutualists and pathogens, but
the impact of tropical rain forest transformation into rubber or oil palm plantations on fungal …

Soil fungi, especially the functional guilds of saprotrophs and symbiotrophs, play a central
role in ecosystem processes such as decomposition and plant nutrient acquisition. Fungal …

Fungi are a highly diverse group of soil organisms greatly contributing to the functioning of
forest ecosystems. Consequently, the understanding of factors affecting their productivity …

Soil microbial diversity has major influences on ecosystem functions and services. However,
due to its complexity and uneven distribution of abundant and rare taxa, quantification of soil …

Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EcMF) are involved in soil nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems.
These fungi can promote the uptake of nutrients (eg, nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P)) and …

Although spatial and temporal variation are both important components structuring microbial
communities, the exact quantification of temporal turnover rates of fungi and bacteria has not …

In temperate and boreal forests, competition for soil resources between free-living
saprotrophs and ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungi has been suggested to restrict saprotrophic …