Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: from experimental design to results

L Tedersoo, M Bahram, L Zinger, RH Nilsson… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of high‐throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies has greatly improved
our capacity to identify fungi and unveil their ecological roles across a variety of ecosystems …

Global systematic review with meta-analysis shows that warming effects on terrestrial plant biomass allocation are influenced by precipitation and mycorrhizal …

L Zhou, X Zhou, Y He, Y Fu, Z Du, M Lu, X Sun… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Biomass allocation in plants is fundamental for understanding and predicting terrestrial
carbon storage. Yet, our knowledge regarding warming effects on root: shoot ratio (R/S) …

[BOOK][B] Entangled life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures

M Sheldrake - 2021 - books.google.com
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• A “brilliant [and] entrancing”(The Guardian) journey into
the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and …

GlobalFungi, a global database of fungal occurrences from high-throughput-sequencing metabarcoding studies

T Větrovský, D Morais, P Kohout, C Lepinay, C Algora… - Scientific Data, 2020 - nature.com
Fungi are key players in vital ecosystem services, spanning carbon cycling, decomposition,
symbiotic associations with cultivated and wild plants and pathogenicity. The high …

Climate change influences mycorrhizal fungal–plant interactions, but conclusions are limited by geographical study bias

AE Bennett, AT Classen - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is altering the interactions among plants and soil organisms in ways that will
alter the structure and function of ecosystems. We reviewed the literature and developed a …

Long‐term soil warming alters fine root dynamics and morphology, and their ectomycorrhizal fungal community in a temperate forest soil

S Kwatcho Kengdo, D Peršoh… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate warming is predicted to affect temperate forests severely, but the response of fine
roots, key to plant nutrition, water uptake, soil carbon, and nutrient cycling is unclear …

Climate change–induced stress disrupts ectomycorrhizal interaction networks at the boreal–temperate ecotone

CW Fernandez, L Mielke, A Stefanski… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The interaction networks formed by ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) and their tree hosts, which
are important to both forest recruitment and ecosystem carbon and nutrient retention, may be …

Fungal communities in soils under global change

P Baldrian, L Bell-Dereske, C Lepinay… - Studies in …, 2022 - ingentaconnect.com
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 …

Decelerated carbon cycling by ectomycorrhizal fungi is controlled by substrate quality and community composition

CW Fernandez, CR See, PG Kennedy - New Phytologist, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Interactions between symbiotic ectomycorrhizal (EM) and free‐living saprotrophs can result
in significant deceleration of leaf litter decomposition. While this phenomenon is widely …

Above- and belowground fungal biodiversity of Populus trees on a continental scale

ME Van Nuland, SC Daws, JK Bailey… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding drivers of terrestrial fungal communities over large scales is an important
challenge for predicting the fate of ecosystems under climate change and providing critical …