A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements

GT Freschet, L Pagès, CM Iversen, LH Comas… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the context of a recent massive increase in research on plant root functions and their
impact on the environment, root ecologists currently face many important challenges to keep …

[HTML][HTML] ITS alchemy: on the use of ITS as a DNA marker in fungal ecology

H Kauserud - Fungal Ecology, 2023 - Elsevier
High throughput sequencing of PCR amplicons derived from environmental DNA (aka DNA
metabarcoding) has become an integral part of fungal ecology, enabling in-depth …

High-throughput sequencing view on the magnitude of global fungal diversity

P Baldrian, T Větrovský, C Lepinay, P Kohout - Fungal Diversity, 2022 - Springer
High-throughput DNA sequencing has dramatically transformed several areas of biodiversity
research including mycology. Despite limitations, high-throughput sequencing is nowadays …

Regional-scale in-depth analysis of soil fungal diversity reveals strong pH and plant species effects in Northern Europe

L Tedersoo, S Anslan, M Bahram, R Drenkhan… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Soil microbiome has a pivotal role in ecosystem functioning, yet little is known about its build-
up from local to regional scales. In a multi-year regional-scale survey involving 1251 plots …

[图书][B] A practical guide to DNA-based methods for biodiversity assessment.

K Bruce, RC Blackman, SJ Bourlat, M Hellström… - 2021 - repository.oceanbestpractices.org
This book represents a synthesis of knowledge and best practice in the field of DNA-based
biomonitoring at the time of writing. It has been written with end-users of molecular tools in …

A group of ectomycorrhizal fungi restricts organic matter accumulation in boreal forest

BD Lindahl, J Kyaschenko, K Varenius… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Boreal forest soils are important global carbon sinks, with significant storage in the organic
topsoil. Decomposition of these stocks requires oxidative enzymes, uniquely produced by …

A tipping point in carbon storage when forest expands into tundra is related to mycorrhizal recycling of nitrogen

KE Clemmensen, MB Durling, A Michelsen… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tundra ecosystems are global belowground sinks for atmospheric CO2. Ongoing warming‐
induced encroachment by shrubs and trees risks turning this sink into a CO2 source …

Community response of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to extreme drought in a cold‐temperate grassland

W Fu, B Chen, MC Rillig, J Jansa, W Ma, C Xu… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate extremes pose enormous threats to natural ecosystems. Arbuscular mycorrhizal
(AM) fungi are key plant symbionts that can affect plant community dynamics and ecosystem …

Contrasting plant–soil–microbial feedbacks stabilize vegetation types and uncouple topsoil C and N stocks across a subarctic–alpine landscape

C Castaño, S Hallin, D Egelkraut, BD Lindahl… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Global vegetation regimes vary in belowground carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) dynamics.
However, disentangling large‐scale climatic controls from the effects of intrinsic plant–soil …

A pile of pipelines: An overview of the bioinformatics software for metabarcoding data analyses

A Hakimzadeh, A Abdala Asbun… - Molecular Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has gained growing attention as a strategy for
monitoring biodiversity in ecology. However, taxa identifications produced through …