Fungi represent a large proportion of the genetic diversity on Earth and fungal activity
influences the structure of plant and animal communities, as well as rates of ecosystem …

Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

ForestGEO is a network of scientists and long-term forest dynamics plots (FDPs) spanning
the Earth's major forest types. ForestGEO's mission is to advance understanding of the …

Explaining the large-scale diversity of soil organisms that drive biogeochemical processes—
and their responses to environmental change—is critical. However, identifying consistent …

This is the twelfth contribution to the Fungal Diversity Notes series on fungal taxonomy,
based on materials collected from many countries which were examined and described …

In the fungal kingdom, the ectomycorrhizal (EcM) symbiosis has evolved independently in
multiple groups that are referred to as lineages. A growing number of molecular studies in …

Background During the last 15 years the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of nuclear DNA
has been used as a target for analyzing fungal diversity in environmental samples, and has …

Humans have dramatically increased atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition globally. At the
coarsest resolution, N deposition is correlated with shifts from ectomycorrhizal (EcM) to …

The Amazon basin harbors a diverse ecological community that has a critical role in the
maintenance of the biosphere. Although plant and animal communities have received much …

Compared with Sanger sequencing‐based methods, pyrosequencing provides orders of
magnitude more data on the diversity of organisms in their natural habitat, but its …