Macrofungi are vital components of any forest ecosystem, performing different roles crucial
to ecosystem functioning. Macrofungi play effective roles in ecosystem processes such as …

The fast and continued progress of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) and the drastic
reduction of its costs have boosted new and unpredictable developments in the field of plant …

Fungi play many roles in different ecosystems. The precise identification of fungi is important
in different aspects. Historically, they were identified based on morphological characteristics …

Citizen science is an increasingly powerful tool to gather large quantities of biological data
and to engage the public. The number of citizen science initiatives has rapidly increased in …

As an ecotone, sandy beaches exist within a multi-dimensional mesh of environmental
gradients, shaped by numerous parameters (eg temperature, humidity, wave action, sand …

The pine pitch canker pathogen, Fusarium circinatum, is globally regarded as one of the
most important threats to commercial pine-based forestry. Although genome sequences of …

Culture collections (CCs) play an important role in the ex situ conservation of biological
material and maintaining species and strains, which can be used for scientific and practical …

IPBES Invasive Alien Species Assessment: Chapter 2. Trends and status of alien and
invasive alien species Page 1 University of Rhode Island DigitalCommons@URI Natural …

Fungal conservation is gaining momentum globally, but many challenges remain. To
advance further, more data are needed on fungal diversity across space and time …

Fungal identification is a cornerstone of fungal research, yet traditional molecular methods
struggle with rapid and accurate onsite identification, especially for closely related species …