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Derek Peršoh
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Open AccessLinking processes to community functions—insights into litter decomposition combining fungal metatranscriptomics and environmental NMR profiling
In forest ecosystems, decomposition is essential for carbon and nutrient cycling and therefore a key process for ecosystem functioning. During the decomposition process, litter chemistry, involved decomposer o...
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Open AccessRoot-Associated Mycobiomes of Common Temperate Plants (Calluna vulgaris and Holcus lanatus) Are Strongly Affected by Winter Climate Conditions
Winter temperatures are projected to increase in Central Europe. Subsequently, snow cover will decrease, leading to increased soil temperature variability, with potentially different consequences for soil fros...
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Changes in Chemical and Microbial Soil Parameters Following 8 Years of Deadwood Decay: An Experiment with Logs of 13 Tree Species in 30 Forests
Deadwood may alter the chemical and microbial properties of forest soils. However, it is unclear how downed deadwood (logs) of different tree species affect nutrients, microbial activity and biomass in differe...
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Open AccessCan we use environmental DNA as holotypes?
The advantages and disadvantages of giving a valid name to a sequence of DNA detected from environmental specimens is presently a hot debate amongst the mycological community. The idea of using intracellular D...
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Insights into fungal communities colonizing the acarosphere in a forest soil habitat
Knowledge on the diversity and ecology of microfungi associated with soil-dwelling mites is rather limited. To get insights into associations between the two highly diverse groups, we studied composition and p...
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Fungal guilds are evenly distributed along a vertical spruce forest soil profile while individual fungi show pronounced niche partitioning
Saprotrophic and ectomycorrhizal (EcM) forest fungi decompose organic matter and mobilize nutrients for host plants, respectively. Competition between the two guilds may cause the so-called Gadgil effect, i.e....
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Flooding Duration Affects the Structure of Terrestrial and Aquatic Microbial Eukaryotic Communities
The increasing number and duration of inundations is reported to be a consequence of climate change and may severely compromise non-adapted macroorganisms. The effect of flooding events on terrestrial and aqua...
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Open AccessTransient leaf endophytes are the most active fungi in 1-year-old beech leaf litter
The ecological significance of fungi occurring asymptomatically inside living plant leaves is poorly understood. Given the broad saprotrophic potential of many endophytic fungi, we hypothesized that they persi...
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Open AccessResurrection and emendation of the Hypoxylaceae, recognised from a multigene phylogeny of the Xylariales
A multigene phylogeny was constructed, including a significant number of representative species of the main lineages in the Xylariaceae and four DNA loci the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS), the large...
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Distinct sensitivity of fungal freshwater guilds to water quality
Multiple anthropogenic stressors have been shown to impact animal and plant communities in freshwater ecosystems, but the responses of aquatic fungi remain largely unknown. Stressor effects on fungal communiti...
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Geographic heat maps of lichen traits derived by combining LIAS light description and GBIF occurrence data, provided on a new platform
LIAS gtm, a new platform of the LIAS lichen information system, is presented. It allows for the visualization of phenotypic traits via geographic heatmap** of relative trait frequencies (RTFs) based on data ...
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New aspects of the biology of Mortierella alliacea
A fungal genotype related to Mortierella alliacea was detected by environmental PCR in samples of the mite species Leptogamasus obesus and Oppiella subpectinata, as well as in the soil body. The association may b...
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Fungal diversity notes 253–366: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa
Notes on 113 fungal taxa are compiled in this paper, including 11 new genera, 89 new species, one new subspecies, three new combinations and seven reference specimens. A wide geographic and taxonomic range of ...
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Plant-associated fungal communities in the light of meta’omics
Approaches for the cultivation-independent analysis of microbial communities are summarized as meta’omics, which predominantly includes metagenomic, -transcriptomic, -proteomic and -metabolomic studies. These ...
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Meliolales
The order Meliolales comprises the families Armatellaceae and Meliolaceae. These are black mildews that grow on the surface of host plants, often regarded as minor plant pathogens. In this study, types or specime...
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Fungal diversity notes 1–110: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal species
This paper is a compilation of notes on 110 fungal taxa, including one new family, 10 new genera, and 76 new species, representing a wide taxonomic and geographic range. The new family, Paradictyoarthriniaceae is...
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Open AccessErratum to: Phialosimplex salinarum, a new species of Eurotiomycetes from a hypersaline habitat
On p. 170 in this paper, published online on 9 October 2014, the spelling adopted for the name of the new combination “Phialosimplex halophila” should be corrected to “Phialosimplex halophilus”. This is an orthog...
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Open AccessPhialosimplex salinarum, a new species of Eurotiomycetes from a hypersaline habitat
Salt mines represent an extreme environment with hypersaline conditions, complete darkness, and low nutrient availability. The diversity of filamentous fungi in such habitats is largely unknown. Eight strains ...
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Hygrocybe virginea is a systemic endophyte of Plantago lanceolata
Species of Hygrocybe (waxcaps) are mostly colorful mushrooms, which are characteristic of undisturbed grasslands. These fungi are endangered in many places worldwide, but their biology remains a mystery: while is...
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Genomic adaptations of the halophilic Dead Sea filamentous fungus Eurotium rubrum
The Dead Sea is one of the most hypersaline habitats on Earth. The fungus Eurotium rubrum (Eurotiomycetes) is among the few species able to survive there. Here we highlight its adaptive strategies, based on genom...
