Forests influence climate and mitigate global change through the storage of carbon in soils.
In turn, these complex ecosystems face important challenges, including increases in carbon …

Due to land use history, most of the current temperate and boreal forests are developed on
nutrient-poor and rocky soils, keeping fertile soils for agriculture. Consequently, the …

Explaining the large-scale diversity of soil organisms that drive biogeochemical processes—
and their responses to environmental change—is critical. However, identifying consistent …

Earth's climate is changing. Effects of climate change on fungal distribution and activity are
hard to predict because they are mediated in many different ways, including: fungal …

Assembly history of fungal communities has a crucial role in the decomposition of woody
resources, and hence nutrient cycling and ecosystem function. However, it has not been …

Migrations between different habitats are key events in the lives of many organisms. Such
movements involve annually recurring travel over long distances usually triggered by …

Unlocking the vast genomic diversity stored in natural history collections would create
unprecedented opportunities for genome-scale evolutionary, phylogenetic, domestication …

Hitherto fungi have rarely been considered in conservation biology, but this is changing as
the field moves from addressing single species issues to an integrative ecosystem‐based …

Soil fungi play indispensable roles in all ecosystems including the recycling of organic
matter and interactions with plants, both as symbionts and pathogens. Past observations …

Long range atmospheric transport is an important pathway for the spread of plant
pathogens, such as rust fungi which can devastate cereal crop health and food security …