Biodiversity and Ecology of Fungi in Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Diversity and Ecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 October 2021) | Viewed by 60015
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mycology (biodiversity, taxonomy, molecular phylogeny; ecology of fungal communities, and fungal biogeography); environmental microbiology (fungal and bacterial communities); nature conservation (conservation of fungi and their habitats)
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Interests: taxonomy, phylogeny; ecology of fungi
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Even the knowledge on fungi is rapidly evolving in the recent times, the real magnitude of its biodiversity is still unknown and the level of exploration globally very low. Today we still know less than 10% of total fungal diversity. Fungi are one of the most important organisms in the world and the sustainability of both terrestrial and marine ecosystems is strongly dependent on them. Great majority of plants is forming mutualistic relationships with fungi, while saprotrophic fungi play one of key roles in nutrients cycling. More and more useful bioactive compounds are discovered in various fungal species and their use is being tested in medicine, agriculture, food production, and other various aspects of biotechnology. Biodiversity is being revealed today much faster due to the modern molecular methods, like metabarcoding, which brings us to the point where we can start understanding the real role of fungi and their life cycles in the natural environments. But, to put all this information into a context, we still lack basic taxonomic knowledge on most of the fungal groups. Therefore, basic mycological research should be still strongly encouraged in the 21st century. This special issue will focus on all these aspects, accepting both the original scientific articles and reviews with the topics on taxonomy, biodiversity, ecology, phylogeny and evolutionary biology of fungi, as well as various fields of applied mycology.
Dr. Armin Mešić
Dr. Ivana Kušan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Biodiversity
- Taxonomy
- Phylogeny
- Systematics
- Ecology
- Evolutionary biology
- Metabarcoding
- eDNA
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