Fungi represent a large proportion of the genetic diversity on Earth and fungal activity
influences the structure of plant and animal communities, as well as rates of ecosystem …

Abstract Knowledge of the relationships and thus the classification of fungi, has developed
rapidly with increasingly widespread use of molecular techniques, over the past 10–15 …

The Basidiomycota constitutes a major phylum of the kingdom Fungi and is second in
species numbers to the Ascomycota. The present work provides an overview of all validly …

Contents Summary 1012 I. Introduction 1013 II. The mycorrhizal symbiosis at the dawn and
rise of the land flora 1014 III. From early land plants to early trees: the origin of roots and true …

In the fungal kingdom, the ectomycorrhizal (EcM) symbiosis has evolved independently in
multiple groups that are referred to as lineages. A growing number of molecular studies in …

The Amazon basin harbors a diverse ecological community that has a critical role in the
maintenance of the biosphere. Although plant and animal communities have received much …

Phylogenomics is increasingly used to infer deep‐branching relationships while revealing
the complexity of evolutionary processes such as incomplete lineage sorting, hybridization …

Dispersal plays a prominent role in most conceptual models of community assembly.
However, direct measurement of dispersal across a whole community is difficult at …

Contents Summary 1076 I. Introduction 1076 II. Historical overview 1077 III. Identities and
distributions of tropical ectomycorrhizal plants 1077 IV. Dominance of tropical forests by …

Several recent estimates of global biodiversity have concluded that the total number of
species on Earth lies near the lower end of the wide range touted in previous decades …