Pushing the frontiers of biodiversity research: Unveiling the global diversity, distribution, and conservation of fungi

T Niskanen, R Lücking, A Dahlberg… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Filamentous fungi for sustainable remediation of pharmaceutical compounds, heavy metal and oil hydrocarbons

S Ghosh, I Rusyn, OV Dmytruk, KV Dmytruk… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This review presents a comprehensive summary of the latest research in the field of
bioremediation with filamentous fungi. The main focus is on the issue of recent progress in …

Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide

MC Rillig, MGA Van der Heijden, M Berdugo… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Increasing the number of environmental stressors could decrease ecosystem functioning in
soils. Yet this relationship has not been globally assessed outside laboratory experiments …

Current trends, limitations and future research in the fungi?

KD Hyde, P Baldrian, Y Chen, KW Thilini Chethana… - Fungal Diversity, 2024 - Springer
The field of mycology has grown from an underappreciated subset of botany, to a valuable,
modern scientific discipline. As this field of study has grown, there have been significant …

GlobalAMFungi: a global database of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal occurrences from high‐throughput sequencing metabarcoding studies

T Větrovský, Z Kolaříková, C Lepinay… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are crucial mutualistic symbionts of the majority of plant
species, with essential roles in plant nutrient uptake and stress mitigation. The importance of …

Biotic homogenization, lower soil fungal diversity and fewer rare taxa in arable soils across Europe

S Banerjee, C Zhao, G Garland, A Edlinger… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Soil fungi are a key constituent of global biodiversity and play a pivotal role in
agroecosystems. How arable farming affects soil fungal biogeography and whether it has a …

Into the microbial niche

LA Malard, A Guisan - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - cell.com
The environmental niche concept describes the distribution of a taxon in the environment
and can be used to understand community dynamics, biological invasions, and the impact of …

Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity

V Mikryukov, O Dulya, A Zizka, M Bahram… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
How the multiple facets of soil fungal diversity vary worldwide remains virtually unknown,
hindering the management of this essential species-rich group. By sequencing high …

Towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi

T Camenzind, CA Aguilar-Trigueros, S Hempel… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Trait-based frameworks are promising tools to understand the functional consequences of
community shifts in response to environmental change. The applicability of these tools to soil …

Continental-scale insights into the soil microbial co-occurrence networks of Australia and their environmental drivers

H Gui, M Breed, Y Li, Q Xu, J Yang… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil microbial communities and their interactions play a critical role in sha** the functions
of ecosystems at regional and continental scales. In recent years, co-occurrence network …