Soil microorganisms are clearly a key component of both natural and managed ecosystems.
Despite the challenges of surviving in soil, a gram of soil can contain thousands of individual …

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 …

Whether niche processes, like environmental filtering, or neutral processes, like dispersal
limitation, are the primary forces driving community assembly is a central question in …

Previous studies have revealed inconsistent correlations between fungal diversity and plant
diversity from local to global scales, and there is a lack of information about the diversity …

Fungi play an important regulating role in terrestrial ecosystem functioning. However, their
biogeographic distribution patterns along combined gradients of plant communities and …

Plants are known to influence belowground microbial community structure along their roots,
but the impacts of plant species richness and plant functional group (FG) identity on …

Previous studies have revealed inconsistent correlations between fungal diversity and
plant/soil properties from local to global scales. Here, we investigated the internal …

Fungi have important roles as decomposers, mycorrhizal root symbionts and pathogens in
forest ecosystems, but there is limited information about their diversity and composition at …

Abstract Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO 2 NPs) are the most produced NPs worldwide
and have great potential to be utilized in agriculture as additives for plant protection …

Fungi play critical roles in ecosystem processes and interact with plant communities in
mutualistic, pathogenic, and commensal ways. Fungal communities are thought to depend …