Fungal biodiversity in salt marsh ecosystems

MS Calabon, EBG Jones, I Promputtha, KD Hyde - Journal of Fungi, 2021 - mdpi.com
This review brings together the research efforts on salt marsh fungi, including their
geographical distribution and host association. A total of 486 taxa associated with different …

Disease-mediated ecosystem services: pathogens, plants, and people

RE Paseka, LA White, DB Van de Waal… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
Despite the ubiquity of pathogens in ecological systems, their roles in influencing ecosystem
services are often overlooked. Pathogens that infect primary producers (ie, plants, algae …

Adaptive intertidal seed-based seagrass restoration in the Dutch Wadden Sea

LL Govers, JHT Heusinkveld, MLE Gräfnings… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Seagrasses form the foundation of many coastal ecosystems but are rapidly declining on a
global scale. The Dutch Wadden Sea once supported extensive subtidal seagrass meadows …

Fungi, bacteria and oomycota opportunistically isolated from the seagrass, Zostera marina

CL Ettinger, JA Eisen - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Fungi in the marine environment are often neglected as a research topic, despite that fungi
having critical roles on land as decomposers, pathogens or endophytes. Here we used …

Host-pathogen dynamics of seagrass diseases under future global change

BK Sullivan, SM Trevathan-Tackett, S Neuhauser… - Marine pollution …, 2018 - Elsevier
Human-induced global change is expected to amplify the disease risk for marine biota.
However, the role of disease in the rapid global decline of seagrass is largely unknown …

Sowing the seeds of seagrass recovery using hessian bags

RKF Unsworth, CM Bertelli… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Seagrass meadows are an important wetland habitat that have been degraded globally but
have an important carbon storage role. In order to expand the restoration of these productive …

Salinity and temperature significantly influence seed germination, seedling establishment, and seedling growth of eelgrass Zostera marina L.

S Xu, Y Zhou, P Wang, F Wang, X Zhang, R Gu - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
Globally, seagrass beds have been recognized as critical yet declining coastal habitats. To
mitigate seagrass losses, seagrass restorations have been conducted in worldwide over the …

Surface chemical defence of the eelgrass Zostera marina against microbial foulers

S Papazian, D Parrot, B Burýšková, F Weinberger… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Plants rely on both mechanical and chemical defence mechanisms to protect their surfaces
against microorganisms. The recently completed genome of the eelgrass Zostera marina, a …

Optimizing seed injection as a seagrass restoration method

MLE Gräfnings, JHT Heusinkveld… - Restoration …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the major declines of seagrasses worldwide, there is an urgent need for effective
restoration methods and strategies. In the Dutch Wadden Sea, intertidal seagrass restoration …

Seagrass‐associated fungal communities show distance decay of similarity that has implications for seagrass management and restoration

BJ Wainwright, GL Zahn, J Zushi, NLY Lee… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Marine fungal biodiversity remains vastly understudied, and even less is known of their
biogeography and the processes responsible for driving these distributions in marine …