Fungi as mediators linking organisms and ecosystems

M Bahram, T Netherway - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Fungi form a major and diverse component of most ecosystems on Earth. They are both
micro and macroorganisms with high and varying functional diversity as well as great …

Ecosystem services provided by bats

TH Kunz, E Braun de Torrez, D Bauer… - Annals of the New …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystem services are the benefits obtained from the environment that increase human
well‐being. Economic valuation is conducted by measuring the human welfare gains or …

Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health

MC Fisher, DA Henk, CJ Briggs, JS Brownstein… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The past two decades have seen an increasing number of virulent infectious diseases in
natural populations and managed landscapes. In both animals and plants, an …

Experimental infection of bats with Geomyces destructans causes white-nose syndrome

JM Lorch, CU Meteyer, MJ Behr, JG Boyles, PM Cryan… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
White-nose syndrome (WNS) has caused recent catastrophic declines among multiple
species of bats in eastern North America,. The disease's name derives from a visually …

Potential for spread of the white-nose fungus (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) in the Americas: use of Maxent and NicheA to assure strict model transference

LE Escobar, A Lira-Noriega, G Medina-Vogel… - Geospatial …, 2014 - geospatialhealth.net
Emerging infectious diseases can present serious threats to wildlife, even to the point of
causing extinction. White-nose fungus (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) is causing an …

Inoculation of bats with European Geomyces destructans supports the novel pathogen hypothesis for the origin of white-nose syndrome

L Warnecke, JM Turner, TK Bollinger… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is an emerging disease of hibernating bats associated with
cutaneous infection by the fungus Geomyces destructans (Gd), and responsible for …

Phylogenetic evaluation of Geomyces and allies reveals no close relatives of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, comb. nov., in bat hibernacula of eastern North …

AM Minnis, DL Lindner - Fungal biology, 2013 - Elsevier
White-nose syndrome (WNS) of bats, caused by the fungus previously known as Geomyces
destructans, has decimated populations of insectivorous bats in eastern North America …

Temperature-Dependent Growth of Geomyces destructans, the Fungus That Causes Bat White-Nose Syndrome

ML Verant, JG Boyles, W Waldrep Jr, G Wibbelt… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is an emergent disease estimated to have killed over five
million North American bats. Caused by the psychrophilic fungus Geomyces destructans …

Wing pathology of white-nose syndrome in bats suggests life-threatening disruption of physiology

PM Cryan, CU Meteyer, JG Boyles, DS Blehert - BMC biology, 2010 - Springer
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is causing unprecedented declines in several species of North
American bats. The characteristic lesions of WNS are caused by the fungus Geomyces …

A world review of fungi, yeasts, and slime moldes in caves

KJ Vanderwolf, D Malloch, DF McAlpine - 2013 - digitalcommons.usf.edu
We provide a review of fungi, yeasts, and slime molds that have been found in natural
solution caves and mines worldwide. Such habitats provide frequent roost sites for bats, and …