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Open AccessMoss and Liverwort Covers Structure Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities Differently in the Icelandic Highlands
Cryptogamic covers extend over vast polar tundra regions and their main components, e.g., bryophytes and lichens, are frequently the first visible colonizers of deglaciated areas. To understand their role in p...
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Open AccessNovel lichen-dominated hypolithic communities in the Namib Desert
The ventral surfaces of translucent rocks from hot desert pavements often harbor hypolithic microbial communities, which are mostly dominated by cyanobacteria. The Namib Desert fog belt supports extensive hypo...
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Fungal diversity notes 1387–1511: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions on genera and species of fungal taxa
This article is the 13th contribution in the Fungal Diversity Notes series, wherein 125 taxa from four phyla, ten classes, 31 orders, 69 families, 92 genera and three genera incertae sedis are treated, demonstrat...
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Open AccessSareomycetes: more diverse than meets the eye
Since its resurrection, the resinicolous discomycete genus Sarea has been accepted as containing two species, one with black apothecia and pycnidia, and one with orange. We investigate this hypothesis using three...
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Amphitropical variation of the algal partners of Pseudephebe (Parmeliaceae, lichenized fungi)
Lichens are present in most terrestrial ecosystems on Earth and colonize extreme habitats, where vascular plants are unable to thrive, due to unique properties of the fungal-algal symbiosis. Here, we explored ...
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Morphogenetic diversity of the ectomycorrhizal genus Cortinarius section Calochroi in the Iberian Peninsula
The taxonomic and genetic diversity of Cortinarius section Calochroi in one of the most biodiversity-rich regions in Europe, the Iberian Peninsula, was investigated through morphological and phylogenetic methods....
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Open AccessConsiderations and consequences of allowing DNA sequence data as types of fungal taxa
Nomenclatural type definitions are one of the most important concepts in biological nomenclature. Being physical objects that can be re-studied by other researchers, types permanently link taxonomy (an artific...
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Hidden diversity of marine borderline lichens and a new order of fungi: Collemopsidiales (Dothideomyceta)
The fungal genus Collemopsidium comprises species that develop so-called borderline lichen symbioses with algae or cyanobacteria. Together with morphologically similar pyrenocarpous fungi it has been assigned to ...
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Shackletonia cryodesertorum (Teloschistaceae, Ascomycota), a new species from the McMurdo Dry Valleys (Antarctica) with notes on the biogeography of the genus Shackletonia
A new species of Shackletonia (Teloschistaceae) is described from the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica, one of the regions with the harshest conditions on Earth. Distinctive traits of the new taxon are the grey ...
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Unravelling the diversity of European Caliciopsis (Coryneliaceae, Ascomycota): Caliciopsis valentina sp. nov. and C. beckhausii comb. nov., with a worldwide key to Caliciopsis
The new species Caliciopsis valentina from the eastern Iberian Peninsula is characterized morphologically, anatomically, and molecularly. The occurrence of C. subcorticalis (Cooke & Ellis) Fitzp. in Europe is dis...
