Soil is an immense habitat for diverse organisms across the tree of life, but just how many
organisms live in soil is surprisingly unknown. Previous efforts to enumerate soil biodiversity …

Fungi comprise approximately 20% of all eukaryotic species and are connected to virtually
all life forms on Earth. Yet, their diversity remains contentious, their distribution elusive, and …

Abstract UNITE (https://unite. ut. ee) is a web-based database and sequence management
environment for molecular identification of eukaryotes. It targets the nuclear ribosomal …

Climate change may be an important threat to global biodiversity, potentially leading to the
extinction of numerous species. But how many? There have been various attempts to …

The global diversity of fungi has been estimated between 2 to 11 million species, of which
only about 155 000 have been named. Most fungi are invisible to the unaided eye, but they …

The phylogenetic position of several clitocyboid/pleurotoid/tricholomatoid genera previously
consideredincertae sedis is here resolved using an updated 6-gene dataset of Agaricales …

The data collected by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), some 2.2 billion
records, is arguably the largest international initiative to digitize and share primary …

Fungal conservation is gaining momentum globally, but many challenges remain. To
advance further, more data are needed on fungal diversity across space and time …

Taxonomic checklists used to verify published plant names and identify synonyms are a
cornerstone of biological research. Four global authoritative checklists for vascular plants …

The Melastomataceae, with some 5858 species, are among the 10 largest families of
flowering plants. Melastomes are subcosmopolitan and mainly distributed in the tropics and …