An evolutionary signal to fungal succession during plant litter decay

Litter chemistry influences decomposition through activity of specific microbial functional guilds

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Shifts in soil fungi and extracellular enzyme activity with simulated climate change in a tropical montane cloud forest

(2018) Caitlin I. Looby et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Growth sites of polypores from quantitative expert evaluation: Late-stage decayers and saprotrophs fruit closer to ground

(2017) Veera Norros et al.   Fungal Ecology

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Shift in fungal communities and associated enzyme activities along an age gradient of managed Pinus sylvestris stands

(2017) Julia Kyaschenko et al.   ISME Journal

Precipitation drives the biogeographic distribution of soil fungal community in Inner Mongolian temperate grasslands

(2017) Di Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Links between soil microbial communities and plant traits in a species-rich grassland under long-term climate change

(2017) Emma J. Sayer et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Altered precipitation seasonality impacts the dominant fungal but rare bacterial taxa in subtropical forest soils

(2016) Qian Zhao et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

FUNGuild: An open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild

(2016) Nhu H. Nguyen et al.   Fungal Ecology

Ectomycorrhizal fungal response to warming is linked to poor host performance at the boreal-temperate ecotone

(2016) Christopher W. Fernandez et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Life in leaf litter: novel insights into community dynamics of bacteria and fungi during litter decomposition

(2016) Witoon Purahong et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A phylum-level phylogenetic classification of zygomycete fungi based on genome-scale data

(2016) Joseph W. Spatafora et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Microbial interactions lead to rapid micro-scale successions on model marine particles

(2016) Manoshi S. Datta et al.   Nature Communications

Ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi respond differently to long-term experimentally increased snow depth in the High Arctic

(2016) Sunil Mundra et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

Relic DNA is abundant in soil and obscures estimates of soil microbial diversity

(2016) Paul Carini et al.   Nature Microbiology

Lignin Degradation in Foliar Litter of Two Shrub Species from the Gap Center to the Closed Canopy in an Alpine Fir Forest

(2015) Wei He et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Multiple-stressor effects on leaf litter decomposition and fungal decomposers in agricultural streams contrast between litter species

(2015) Andreas Bruder et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Priority effects during fungal community establishment in beech wood

(2015) Jennifer Hiscox et al.   ISME Journal

Fungal Traits That Drive Ecosystem Dynamics on Land

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Priority colonization of Cinnamomum camphora litter by endophytes affects decomposition rate, fungal community and microbial activities under field conditions

(2015) Yonghui Lin et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Reply to Veresoglou: Overdependence on “significance” testing in biology

(2015) Thomas W. Crowther et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Composition of fungal and bacterial communities in forest litter and soil is largely determined by dominant trees

(2015) Michaela Urbanová et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

So Many Variables: Joint Modeling in Community Ecology

(2015) David I. Warton et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Extracellular enzyme kinetics scale with resource availability

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RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Cultivated and fallow fields harbor distinct communities of Basidiomycota

(2014) Rasmus Kjøller et al.   Fungal Ecology

Species associations during the succession of wood-inhabiting fungal communities

(2014) Elisabet Ottosson et al.   Fungal Ecology

Changes in plant community composition and reduced precipitation have limited effects on the structure of soil bacterial and fungal communities present in a semiarid grassland

(2014) Theresa A. McHugh et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Endemism and functional convergence across the North American soil mycobiome

(2014) J. M. Talbot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extensive sampling of basidiomycete genomes demonstrates inadequacy of the white-rot/brown-rot paradigm for wood decay fungi

(2014) Robert Riley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global diversity and geography of soil fungi

(2014) L. Tedersoo et al.   SCIENCE

Warming-related increases in soil CO2 efflux are explained by increased below-ground carbon flux

(2014) Christian P. Giardina et al.   Nature Climate Change

Litter quality, decomposition rates and saprotrophic mycoflora in Fallopia japonica (Houtt.) Ronse Decraene and in adjacent native grassland vegetation

(2013) T. Mincheva et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Thermal acclimation in widespread heterotrophic soil microbes

(2013) Thomas W. Crowther et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Shifts in fungal communities during decomposition of boreal forest litter

(2013) Kathleen K. Treseder et al.   Fungal Ecology

Contrasting changes in taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity during a long-term succession: insights into assembly processes

(2013) Oliver Purschke et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Evolution of fungal sexual reproduction

(2013) Joseph Heitman et al.   MYCOLOGIA

A Guide to Enterotypes across the Human Body: Meta-Analysis of Microbial Community Structures in Human Microbiome Datasets

(2013) Omry Koren et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Changes in Fungal Community Composition in Response to Elevated Atmospheric CO2 and Nitrogen Fertilization Varies with Soil Horizon

(2013) Carolyn F. Weber et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Does the leaf economic spectrum hold within local species pools across varying environmental conditions?

(2012) Justin P. Wright et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Fungal community on decomposing leaf litter undergoes rapid successional changes

(2012) Jana Voříšková et al.   ISME Journal

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Paleozoic Origin of Enzymatic Lignin Decomposition Reconstructed from 31 Fungal Genomes

(2012) D. Floudas et al.   SCIENCE

A framework for representing microbial decomposition in coupled climate models

(2011) Katherine E. O. Todd-Brown et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Arsenal of plant cell wall degrading enzymes reflects host preference among plant pathogenic fungi

(2011) Brian C King et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Functional diversity of terrestrial microbial decomposers and their substrates

(2011) Stephan Hättenschwiler et al.   COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES

Phytophagy on phylogenetically isolated trees: why hosts should escape their relatives

(2011) Benjamin Yguel et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Initial fungal colonizer affects mass loss and fungal community development in Picea abies logs 6yr after inoculation

(2011) Daniel L. Lindner et al.   Fungal Ecology

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Comparative metagenomic, phylogenetic and physiological analyses of soil microbial communities across nitrogen gradients

(2011) Noah Fierer et al.   ISME Journal

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

(2011) Michael W. I. Schmidt et al.   NATURE

Phylogenetic relatedness predicts priority effects in nectar yeast communities

(2011) K. G. Peay et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Functional diversity in resource use by fungi

(2010) Krista L. McGuire et al.   ECOLOGY

A new conceptual model for the fate of lignin in decomposing plant litter

(2010) Thimo Klotzbücher et al.   ECOLOGY

Assembly history dictates ecosystem functioning: evidence from wood decomposer communities

(2010) Tadashi Fukami et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Cost-effective strategies to conserve boreal forest biodiversity and long-term landscape-level maintenance of habitats

(2010) Mikko Mönkkönen et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Fungal community responses to precipitation

(2010) CHRISTINE V. HAWKES et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Succession of microbial consortia in the developing infant gut microbiome

(2010) J. E. Koenig et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chemical composition and diversity influence non-additive effects of litter mixtures on soil carbon and nitrogen cycling: Implications for plant species loss

(2010) Courtney L. Meier et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Opposing assembly mechanisms in a Neotropical dry forest: implications for phylogenetic and functional community ecology

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Weighting by Inverse Variance or by Sample Size in Random-Effects Meta-Analysis

(2009) Fulgencio Marín-Martínez et al.   EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT

The Role of Early Fungal Colonizers in Leaf-Litter Decomposition in Portuguese Streams Impacted by Agricultural Runoff

(2009) K. R. Sridhar et al.   INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF HYDROBIOLOGY

Ectomycorrhizal lifestyle in fungi: global diversity, distribution, and evolution of phylogenetic lineages

(2009) Leho Tedersoo et al.   MYCORRHIZA

Bacterial competition: surviving and thriving in the microbial jungle

(2009) Michael E. Hibbing et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Soil carbon and nitrogen mineralization: Theory and models across scales

(2009) Stefano Manzoni et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution

(2008) Campbell O. Webb et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogenetic niche conservatism, phylogenetic signal and the relationship between phylogenetic relatedness and ecological similarity among species

(2008) Jonathan B. Losos   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Fungal Taxa Target Different Carbon Sources in Forest Soil

(2008) China A. Hanson et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Molecular Evolution and Diversity of Lignin Degrading Heme Peroxidases in the Agaricomycetes

(2008) Ingo Morgenstern et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Rates of litter decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems: global patterns and controlling factors

(2008) Deqiang Zhang et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology