Abstract Purpose of Review The continued, rapid development of novel molecular genetic
tools is contributing to a better understanding of forest-associated fungi and their interactive …

Fungi represent a major proportion of the forest microbiome (Baldrian, 2017). Due to their
taxonomic and functional diversity, nurtured by diverse forest habitats, fungi play an …

Forests provide invaluable economic, ecological, and social services. At the same time, they
are exposed to several threats, such as fragmentation, changing climatic conditions, or …

Increasing human impacts on forests, including unintentional movement of pathogens,
climate change, and large-scale intensive plantations, are associated with an …

Interactions between fungi and woody roots may be critical factors that influence diverse
forest ecosystems processes, such as wood decay (nutrient recycling); root diseases and …

In the last two decades, important developments in molecular biology have significantly
improved our capacity to address questions in population biology, which could have an …

The forest pathology paradigm that one disease is caused by one pathogen is shifting
toward a consideration of the complex ecological interactions among pathogens, microbial …

Globally, forests represent highly productive ecosystems that act as carbon sinks where soil
organic matter is formed from residuals after biomass decomposition as well as from …

Forest soil fungal communities are extremely complex and diverse, and show a range of
different lifestyles from saprotrophs, endophytes, pathogens, and mycorrhizal species …

Terrestrial plants including forest trees are generally known to live in close association with
microbial organisms. The inherent features of this close association can be commensalism …