Chewing up the Wood-Wide Web: Selective Grazing on Ectomycorrhizal Fungi by Collembola

Ectomycorrhizal fungi--fairy rings and the wood-wide web.

Ectomycorrhizal fungi – fairy rings and the wood-wide web Many of us will have seen fairy rings, the mysterious circles of fungal fruiting bodies that occur in open grassy places or in forests. The secrecy about these rings is expressed in their naming: in English folklore, the rings were said to be caused by fairies dancing in a circle (Fig. 1) whereas in German-speaking Europe they are known ...

Scaling up: examining the macroecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi.

Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi play major ecological roles in temperate and tropical ecosystems. Although the richness of ECM fungal communities and the factors controlling their structure have been documented at local spatial scales, how they vary at larger spatial scales remains unclear. In this issue of Molecular Ecology, Tedersoo et al. (2012) present the results of a meta-analysis of ECM fung...

The ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi

The ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi

EFFECTS OF WOOD ON THE GROWTH OF LIGNICOLOUS FRESHWATER FUNGI

The addition of cottonwood and ash sapwood powder to YPSSl2 medium influenced the mycelial growth of 13 species of freshwater lignicolous Ascomycetes and Hyphornycetes. These species fall into three groups with respect to their responses to the presence of leached or non-leached wood powder. Neither wood type showed strong inhibitory effect on the mycelial growth of the species. Leaching di...