Dimensions of biodiversity in the Earth mycobiome

KG Peay, PG Kennedy, JM Talbot - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2016 - nature.com
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 …

Exploring the role of ectomycorrhizal fungi in soil carbon dynamics

DR Zak, PT Pellitier, WA Argiroff, B Castillo… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The extent to which ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi enable plants to access organic nitrogen
(N) bound in soil organic matter (SOM) and transfer this growth‐limiting nutrient to their plant …

FUNGuild: an open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild

NH Nguyen, Z Song, ST Bates, S Branco, L Tedersoo… - Fungal ecology, 2016 - Elsevier
Fungi typically live in highly diverse communities composed of multiple ecological guilds.
Although high-throughput sequencing has greatly increased the ability to quantify the …

Building a better foundation: improving root‐trait measurements to understand and model plant and ecosystem processes

ML McCormack, D Guo, CM Iversen, W Chen… - New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Trait‐based approaches provide a useful framework to investigate plant strategies for
resource acquisition, growth, and competition, as well as plant impacts on ecosystem …

[HTML][HTML] The unbearable lightness of sequenced-based identification

V Hofstetter, B Buyck, G Eyssartier, S Schnee, K Gindro - Fungal Diversity, 2019 - Springer
Using the basic GenBank local alignment search tool program (BLAST) to identify fungi
collected in a recently protected beech forest at Montricher (Switzerland), the number of ITS …

Fifty important research questions in microbial ecology

RE Antwis, SM Griffiths, XA Harrison… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Microbial ecology provides insights into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of
microbial communities underpinning every ecosystem on Earth. Microbial communities can …

[图书][B] The fungal community: its organization and role in the ecosystem

J Dighton, JF White - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
"… a number of chapters provide excellent summaries of the modern methods available for
studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely …

[HTML][HTML] Microbiomes: unifying animal and plant systems through the lens of community ecology theory

N Christian, BK Whitaker, K Clay - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The field of microbiome research is arguably one of the fastest growing in biology. Bacteria
feature prominently in studies on animal health, but fungi appear to be the more prominent …

How to know the fungi: combining field inventories and DNA-barcoding to document fungal diversity

C Truong, AB Mujic, R Healy, F Kuhar, G Furci… - New Phytologist, 2017 - JSTOR
The fungi kingdom is among the most diverse eukaryotic lineages on Earth with estimates of
several million extant species (O'Brien et al., 2005; Blackwell, 2011; Taylor et al., 2014) …

Navigating the labyrinth: a guide to sequence‐based, community ecology of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

MM Hart, K Aleklett, PL Chagnon, C Egan… - New …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Data generated from next generation sequencing (NGS) will soon comprise the majority of
information about arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) communities. Although these …