Interactions between plants and microbes have important influences on evolutionary
processes, population dynamics, community structure, and ecosystem function. We review …

The cryptic lifestyle of most fungi necessitates molecular identification of the guild in
environmental studies. Over the past decades, rapid development and affordability of …

Mountains have a long history in the study of diversity. Like macroscopic taxa, soil microbes
are hypothesized to be strongly structured by montane gradients, and recently there has …

Dispersal is a key process driving local‐scale community assembly and global‐scale
biogeography of plant symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal communities. A trait …

The swift rise of omics-approaches allows for investigating microbial diversity and plant-
microbe interactions across diverse ecological communities and spatio-temporal scales. The …

Motivation and aim Soil biodiversity is central to ecosystem function and services. It
represents most of terrestrial biodiversity and at least a quarter of all biodiversity on Earth …

Eukaryote-associated microbiomes vary across host taxa and environments but the key
factors underlying their diversity and structure in fungi are still poorly understood. Here we …

Pinus heldreichii is a high-altitude coniferous tree species naturaly occurring in small and
disjuncted populations in the Balkans and southern Italy. The aim of this study was to assess …

Diverse communities of fungi and bacteria in deadwood mediate wood decay. While rates of
decomposition vary greatly among woody species and spatially distinct habitats, the relative …

Global change is pressing forest pathologists to solve increasingly complex problems. We
argue that understanding interactive effects between forest pathogens and global warming …