Global species numbers of fungi: are tropical studies and molecular approaches contributing to a more robust estimate?

The Fungi: 1, 2, 3 … 5.1 million species?

(2011) Meredith Blackwell   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

A clustering optimization strategy to estimate species richness of Sebacinales in the tropical Andes based on molecular sequences from distinct DNA regions

(2011) Sabrina D. Setaro et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Species richness of plants and fungi in western Panama: towards a fungal inventory in the tropics

(2011) M. Piepenbring et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Ectomycorrhizal fungal sporocarp diversity and discovery of new taxa in Dicymbe monodominant forests of the Guiana Shield

(2011) Terry W. Henkel et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Assessment of soil fungal diversity in different alpine tundra habitats by means of pyrosequencing

(2011) Guillaume Lentendu et al.   FUNGAL DIVERSITY

Discovery of novel intermediate forms redefines the fungal tree of life

(2011) Meredith D. M. Jones et al.   NATURE

Archaeorhizomycetes: Unearthing an Ancient Class of Ubiquitous Soil Fungi

(2011) A. Rosling et al.   SCIENCE

How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean?

(2011) Camilo Mora et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Progress in molecular and morphological taxon discovery in Fungi and options for formal classification of environmental sequences

(2011) David S. Hibbett et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Three reasons to re-evaluate fungal diversity ‘on Earth and in the ocean’

(2011) David Bass et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Cryptic species in lichen-forming fungi

(2011) Ana Crespo et al.   IMA Fungus

Anaerobic fungi: Neocallimastigomycota

(2011) Gareth W Griffith et al.   IMA Fungus

Structure and resilience of fungal communities in Alaskan boreal forest soilsThis article is one of a selection of papers from The Dynamics of Change in Alaska’s Boreal Forests: Resilience and Vulnerability in Response to Climate Warming.

(2010) D. Lee Taylor et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Phylogeny of rock-inhabiting fungi related to Dothideomycetes

(2010) C. Ruibal et al.   STUDIES IN MYCOLOGY

Species and ecological diversity within the Cladosporium cladosporioides complex (Davidiellaceae, Capnodiales)

(2010) K. Bensch et al.   STUDIES IN MYCOLOGY

Fungal Diversity in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Ecosystems

(2009) T. Le Calvez et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

454 Pyrosequencing analyses of forest soils reveal an unexpectedly high fungal diversity

(2009) M. Buée et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST