Mining in the Amazon: Importance, impacts, and challenges to restore degraded ecosystems. Are we on the right way?

WBR Martins, JI de Matos Rodrigues… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mining is one of the main economic activities in the Amazon region, contributing
substantially to the economy of countries that share its territory. This activity, however, brings …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in forest ecosystems of Brazil: A review

E Winagraski, G Kaschuk, PHR Monteiro, CG Auer… - Cerne, 2019 - SciELO Brasil
Plants can stablish symbiosis with arburcular mycorrhiza fungi (AMF), in which the fungus
uses carbohydrates synthesized by plant photosynthesis in exchange for soil nutrients. AMF …

Environmental identification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi using the LSU rDNA gene region: an expanded database and improved pipeline

CS Delavaux, RJ Ramos, SL Sturmer, JD Bever - Mycorrhiza, 2022 - Springer
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF; Glomeromycota) are difficult to culture; therefore,
establishing a robust amplicon-based approach to taxa identification is imperative to …

Utility of large subunit for environmental sequencing of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: a new reference database and pipeline.

CS Delavaux, SL Sturmer, MR Wagner… - New …, 2021 - search.ebscohost.com
Keywords: amplicon sequencing; bioinformatics; eDNA; Glomeromycota; large subunit EN
amplicon sequencing bioinformatics eDNA Glomeromycota large subunit 3048 3052 5 …

Native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi respond to rehabilitation in iron ore mining areas from the Eastern Brazilian Amazon

RM Rodríguez-Rodríguez, K Kemmelmeier… - Pedobiologia, 2021 - Elsevier
Rehabilitation of mining areas is a relevant and current subject, in which the response of
microbial communities is an important evaluation tool regarding their progress. In this …

[PDF][PDF] Species diversity of Glomeromycota in Brazilian biomes

LC Maia, JH Passos, JA Silva, F Oehl, DMA Assis - Sydowia, 2020 - sydowia.at
Brazil is a megadiverse country, with around 20% of all known biodiversity in the world. This
diversity is distributed in six major biomes that present different floristic characteristics …

[HTML][HTML] The characteristics of fungal responses to uranium mining activities and analysis of their tolerance to uranium

L Qiu, A Sha, N Li, Y Ran, P Xiang, L Zhou… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The influence of uranium (U) mining on the fungal diversity (FD) and communities (FC)
structure was investigated in this work. Our results revealed that soil FC richness and FD …

Revegetation process increases the diversity of total and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in areas affected by the Fundão dam failure in Mariana, Brazil

IG de Oliveira Prado, MCS da Silva… - applied soil ecology, 2019 - Elsevier
Mining activities have environmental impacts. The rupture of the Fundão tailing dam ejected
a significant volume of iron ore mining waste (IOMW) and was characterized as the greatest …

Soil microbiological attributes indicate recovery of an iron mining area and of the biological quality of adjacent phytophysiognomies

AO Silva, AM da Costa, AF dos Santos Teixeira… - Ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Mining activities modify the landscape and may have severe environmental impacts. The
degree of recovery or disturbance of these environments must be determined, and …

Microbiome of a revegetated iron-mining site and pristine ecosystems from the Brazilian Cerrado

CK Vieira, LG dos Anjos Borges, L Marconatto… - Applied Soil …, 2018 - Elsevier
The Cerrado domain is composed of different phytophysiognomies and considered a hot
spot of global diversity. However, few studies have assessed the soil microbiome of this …