the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007 under grant agreement no.227522。
Plant-symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi(AMF)are of high global ecological and economic importance,but describing environmental communities of AMF at the species level remains a challenge,despite the need to und...
the DFG Priority Program 1374 on BInfrastructure-BiodiversityExploratories(KR 3587/1-1,KR 3587/3-2,BA 2821/9-2,BU 941/17-1,HO 1961/5-1,HO 1961/5-2)。
Fungi play vital roles in the decomposition of deadwood due to their secretion of various enzymes that break down plant cell-wall complexes.The compositions of woodinhabiting fungal(WIF)communities change over the c...
supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology(FCT)through a Ph.D.grant for E.B.(SFRH/BD/21730/2005).
Mediterranean forest ecosystems are characterized by various vascular plant groups with their associated mycor-rhizae and free living soil fungi with various ecological functions.Fire plays a major role in Mediterrane...
Fund–Operational Competitiveness Programme(FEDER-POFC-COMPETE)(FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-013954);the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology supported this study(PEst-OE/BIA/UI4050/2014 and PTDC/AACAMB/113746/2009);S.Duarte(SFRH/BPD/47574/2008).
Microbial decomposers,especially a fungal group called aquatic hyphomycetes,play a critical role in processing plant litter in freshwaters by increasing its palatability to invertebrate shredders.Traditionally,communi...
funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG,project PE 1673/2).
Endophytic fungal communities have been shown to be highly diverse in almost every host plant species analyzed so far.However,the factors shaping their compositions are largely unknown.To elucidate the impact of vario...