Fungal diversity revisited: 2.2 to 3.8 million species

DL Hawksworth, R Lücking - Microbiology spectrum, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The question of how many species of Fungi there are has occasioned much speculation,
with figures mostly posited from around half a million to 10 million, and in one extreme case …

Ectomycorrhizas and water relations of trees: a review

T Lehto, JJ Zwiazek - Mycorrhiza, 2011 - Springer
There is plenty of evidence for improved nutrient acquisition by ectomycorrhizas in trees;
however, their role in water uptake is much less clear. In addition to experiments showing …

Mycorrhizal networks: des liaisons dangereuses?

MA Selosse, F Richard, X He, SW Simard - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2006 - cell.com
Mycorrhizal associations, by which most land plants receive mineral nutrition, are diffuse
and often non-specific. A common mycorrhizal network is formed when fungal mycelia …

Ectomycorrhizal fungal succession in mixed temperate forests

BD Twieg, DM Durall, SW Simard - New Phytologist, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungal communities of Douglas‐fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and
paper birch (Betula papyrifera) were studied along a chronosequence of forest development …

One hundred new species of lichenized fungi: a signature of undiscovered global diversity

HT Lumbsch, T Ahti, S Altermann, GA De Paz… - Phytotaxa, 2011 - biotaxa.org
The number of undescribed species of lichenized fungi has been estimated at roughly
10,000. Describing and cataloging these would take the existing number of taxonomists …

[PDF][PDF] Ectomycorrhizal community structure in a xeric Quercus woodland based on rDNA sequence analysis of sporocarps and pooled roots

ME Smith, GW Douhan, DM Rizzo - New Phytologist, 2007 - academia.edu
Quercus woodlands are key components of California's wild landscapes, yet little is known
about ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi in these ecosystems.• We examined the EM community …

Community composition, host range and genetic structure of the fungal entomopathogen Beauveria in adjoining agricultural and seminatural habitats

NV Meyling, M Lübeck, EP Buckley… - Molecular …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Although intensively investigated for biological control of insect pests, little is known about
the ecology of the fungal entomopathogenic genus Beauveria in natural or agricultural …

How many fungi make sclerotia?

ME Smith, TW Henkel, JA Rollins - Fungal Ecology, 2015 - Elsevier
Most fungi produce some type of durable microscopic structure such as a spore that is
important for dispersal and/or survival under adverse conditions, but many species also …

The mid-domain effect in ectomycorrhizal fungi: range overlap along an elevation gradient on Mount Fuji, Japan

Y Miyamoto, T Nakano, M Hattori, K Nara - The ISME journal, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Mid-domain effect (MDE) models predict that the random placement of species' ranges
within a bounded geographical area leads to increased range overlap and species richness …

A single European aspen (Populus tremula) tree individual may potentially harbour dozens of Cenococcum geophilum ITS genotypes and hundreds of species of …

M Bahram, S Põlme, U Kõljalg… - FEMS microbiology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EcMF) form diverse communities and link different host plants into
mycorrhizal networks, yet little is known about the magnitude of mycobiont diversity of a …