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 …

The best practice for microbiome analysis using R

T Wen, G Niu, T Chen, Q Shen, J Yuan, YX Liu - Protein & Cell, 2023 - academic.oup.com
With the gradual maturity of sequencing technology, many microbiome studies have
published, driving the emergence and advance of related analysis tools. R language is the …

Pervasive associations between dark septate endophytic fungi with tree root and soil microbiomes across Europe

T Netherway, J Bengtsson, F Buegger… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Trees interact with a multitude of microbes through their roots and root symbionts such as
mycorrhizal fungi and root endophytes. Here, we explore the role of fungal root symbionts as …

Regional-scale in-depth analysis of soil fungal diversity reveals strong pH and plant species effects in Northern Europe

L Tedersoo, S Anslan, M Bahram, R Drenkhan… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Soil microbiome has a pivotal role in ecosystem functioning, yet little is known about its build-
up from local to regional scales. In a multi-year regional-scale survey involving 1251 plots …

Three decades of increasing fish biodiversity across the northeast Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean

C Gordó-Vilaseca, F Stephenson, M Coll… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Observed range shifts of numerous species support predictions of climate change models
that species will shift their distribution northward into the Arctic and sub-Arctic seas due to …

Automated assessment reveals that the extinction risk of reptiles is widely underestimated across space and phylogeny

GHO Caetano, DG Chapple, R Grenyer, T Raz… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The Red List of Threatened Species, published by the International Union for Conservation
of Nature (IUCN), is a crucial tool for conservation decision-making. However, despite …

The influence of tree genus, phylogeny, and richness on the specificity, rarity, and diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi

L Tedersoo, R Drenkhan, K Abarenkov… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Partner specificity is a well‐documented phenomenon in biotic interactions, yet the factors
that determine specificity in plant‐fungal associations remain largely unknown. By utilizing …

Trajectory analysis in community ecology

M De Cáceres, L Coll, P Legendre… - Ecological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ecologists have long been interested in how communities change over time. Addressing
questions about community dynamics requires ways of representing and comparing the …

Alien species and climate change drive shifts in a riverine fish community and trait compositions over 35 years

G Le Hen, P Balzani, P Haase, A Kouba, C Liu… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Alien fish substantially impact aquatic communities. However, their effects on trait
composition remain poorly understood, especially at large spatiotemporal scales. Here, we …

Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate and topography

ASK Ngute, DS Schoeman, M Pfeifer… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Growing evidence suggests that liana competition with trees is threatening the global carbon
sink by slowing the recovery of forests following disturbance. A recent theory based on local …