Orchid distribution and population dynamics are influenced by a variety of ecological factors
and the formation of holobionts, which play key roles in colonization and ecological …

Symbioses are ubiquitous in nature and influence individual plants and populations. Orchids
have life history stages that depend fully or partially on fungi for carbon and other essential …

Orchids form mycorrhizal symbioses with fungi in natural habitats that affect their seed
germination, protocorm growth, and adult nutrition. An increasing number of studies …

Mycorrhizal fungi have substantial potential to influence plant distribution, especially in
specialized orchids and mycoheterotrophic plants. However, little is known about …

Understanding the processes that determine the architecture of interaction networks
represents a major challenge in ecology and evolutionary biology. One of the most important …

Interaction with orchid mycorrhizal fungi (OMF) is essential to all members of the
Orchidaceae, yet we know little about whether or how OMF abundances in substrates shape …

Orchids are critically dependent on fungi for seedling establishment and growth, so the
distribution and diversity of orchids might depend on the associated fungal communities. We …

Characterizing the architecture of bipartite networks is increasingly used as a framework to
study biotic interactions within their ecological context and to assess the extent to which …

Terrestrial orchid germination, growth and development are closely linked to the
establishment and maintenance of a relationship with a mycorrhizal fungus. Mycorrhizal …

Fungus‐subsidized growth through the seedling stage is the most critical feature of the life
history for the thousands of mycorrhizal plant species that propagate by means of 'dust …