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 …

Species identification in the myxomycetes (plasmodial slime molds or myxogastrids) poses
particular challenges to researchers as a result of their morphological plasticity and frequent …

The diversity of dark-spored myxomycetes in forest ground litter and soil from four study plots
across a fire chronosequence in Nizhne-Svirskiy Nature Reserve (northwest of Russia) was …

Myxomycetes are terrestrial protists with many presumably cosmopolitan species dispersing
via airborne spores. A truly cosmopolitan species would suffer from outbreeding depression …

Neither plants, nor animals, nor fungi, the myxomycetes are a surprisingly diverse and
fascinating group of organisms. They spend the majority of their life out of sight as single …

Myxomycetes are the most species-rich Amoebozoa group and one of the major
components of soil protist diversity. However, information on their ecology in soil remains …

Tree species and climate are considered the most critical drivers of coarse woody debris
decay but disentangling their relative importance has proven challenging. We conducted a …

Forest litter harbors complex networks of microorganisms whose major components are
bacteria, fungi and protists. Protists, being highly selective consumers of bacteria and fungi …

Deadwood represents significant carbon (C) stock in a temperate forests. Its decomposition
and C mobilization is accomplished by decomposer microorganisms–fungi and bacteria …

We examined the relationship between the community structure of wood-decaying fungi,
detected by high-throughput sequencing, and the decomposition rate using 13 years of data …