Plant-symbiotic fungi influence the structure and function of all terrestrial ecosystems, but
factors shaping their distributions in time and space are rarely well understood. Grasses …

Most studies examining endophytic fungi associated with grasses (Poaceae) have focused
on agronomically important species in managed ecosystems or on wild grasses in …

Fungal endophytes are ubiquitous fungi that inhabit healthy plant tissues without causing
disease. Endophytes have been found in every plant species examined to date and may be …

Fungal endophytes have been found in every plant species examined to date and appear to
be important, but largely unquantified, components of fungal biodiversity. Endophytes are …

Fungal endophytes are found in asymptomatic photosynthetic tissues of all major lineages of
land plants. The ubiquity of these cryptic symbionts is clear, but the scale of their diversity …

Processes shaping the distribution of foliar fungal endophyte species remain poorly
understood. Despite increasing evidence that these cryptic fungal symbionts of plants …

Every plant species examined to date harbors endophytic fungi within its asymptomatic
aerial tissues, such that endophytes represent a ubiquitous, yet cryptic, component of …

Understanding how fungal endophyte communities differ in abundance, diversity, taxonomic
composition, and host affinity over the geographic ranges of their hosts is key to …

We collected various plant species along an altitudinal gradient ranging from 400 to 2900 m
in tropical wet forests of Costa Rica, isolated the associated endophytic fungi, and performed …

Understanding how species-rich communities persist is a foundational question in ecology.
In tropical forests, tree diversity is structured by edaphic factors, climate, and biotic …