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 …

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 …

Despite having key functions in terrestrial ecosystems, information on the dominant soil fungi
and their ecological preferences at the global scale is lacking. To fill this knowledge gap, we …

Fungi typically live in highly diverse communities composed of multiple ecological guilds.
Although high-throughput sequencing has greatly increased the ability to quantify the …

Traits are inherent properties of organisms, but how are they defined for organismal
networks such as mycorrhizal symbioses? Mycorrhizal symbioses are complex and diverse …

The indoor microbiome is a complex system that is thought to depend on dispersal from the
outdoor biome and the occupants' microbiome combined with selective pressures imposed …

Recent advances in molecular approaches and DNA sequencing have greatly progressed
the field of ecology and allowed for the study of complex communities in unprecedented …

It has been known for centuries that microorganisms are ubiquitous in the atmosphere,
where they are capable of long-distance dispersal. Likewise, it is well-established that these …

The influence of forest management on fungal diversity and community composition has
been the subject of a wide number of studies over the last two decades. However, the …

Stochastic processes can play an important role in microbial community assembly. Dispersal
limitation is one process that can increase stochasticity and obscure relationships between …