Plastics and other artificial materials pose new risks to health of the ocean. Anthropogenic
debris travels across large distances and is ubiquitous in the water and on the shorelines …

Abstract Knowledge of the relationships and thus the classification of fungi, has developed
rapidly with increasingly widespread use of molecular techniques, over the past 10–15 …

Abstract Index Fungorum, Species Fungorum and MycoBank are the key fungal
nomenclature and taxonomic databases that can be sourced to find taxonomic details …

Sordariomycetes is one of the largest classes of Ascomycota and is characterised by
perithecial ascomata and inoperculate unitunicate asci. The class includes many important …

Mycologists have been fascinated with marine fungi for more than 70 years now. An
enormous volume of information on marine fungi is presently available. We can now say …

Fungi are an important and diverse component in various ecosystems. The methods to
identify different fungi are an important step in any mycological study. Classical methods of …

"… a number of chapters provide excellent summaries of the modern methods available for
studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely …

Part One presents the current classification that includes all accepted genera and higher
taxa above the generic level in the phylum Ascomycota. It is based on the changes listed in …

The discovery of new natural products from fungi isolated from substrata in marine
environment has increased dramatically over the last few decades, cumulating in over 1000 …

Large organic food falls to the deep sea–such as whale carcasses and wood logs–are
known to serve as step** stones for the dispersal of highly adapted chemosynthetic …