The question of how many species of Fungi there are has occasioned much speculation,
with figures mostly posited from around half a million to 10 million, and in one extreme case …

Sexual reproduction is the basic way to form high genetic diversity and it is beneficial in
evolution and speciation of fungi. The global diversity of teleomorphic species in …

Using the basic GenBank local alignment search tool program (BLAST) to identify fungi
collected in a recently protected beech forest at Montricher (Switzerland), the number of ITS …

Recent estimates of the global species numbers of fungi suggest that the much-used figure
of 1.5 million is low, and figures up to 5.1 million have been proposed in the last few years …

Epifoliar fungi are one of the significant fungal groups typically living on the surface of
leaves. They are usually recorded as saprobes, obligate parasites and commensals and are …

Abstract The Dry Afromontane forests in Northern Ethiopia have been cleared for agriculture
and reduced to small and isolated fragments. Most of these forests are located around …

Scientific information about biodiversity distribution is indispensable for nature conservation
and sustainable management of natural resources. For several groups of animals and …

This study aims at characterizing the diversity and temporal changes of species richness
and composition of fungi in an ecotone of a forest border and a meadow in the Taunus …

The collection of papers in this special issue examines the nature of some of the ecosystem
and environmental interactions involving fungi in the tropics and the biodiversity of certain of …

Tropical rainforests form the most species-rich biome on the earth. The Dja Biosphere
Reserve (DBR) in Cameroon is a biodiverse tropical forest characterized in part by upland …