Aquatic fungi: targeting the forgotten in microbial ecology
- Fungi constitute important and conspicuous components of aquatic microbial communities, but their diversity and functional roles remain poorly characterized. New methods and conceptual frameworks are required to accurately describe their ecological roles, involvement in global cycling processes, and utility for human activities, considering both cultivation independent techniques as well as experiments in laboratory and in natural ecosystems. Here we highlight recent developments and extant knowledge gaps in aquatic mycology, and provide a conceptual model to expose the importance of fungi in aquatic food webs and related biogeochemical processes.
| Author details: | Hans-Peter GroßartORCiDGND, Keilor Rojas-JimenezORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2016.03.016 |
| ISSN: | 1369-5274 |
| ISSN: | 1879-0364 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27078576 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Current opinion in microbiology |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | London |
| Publication type: | Review |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2016 |
| Publication year: | 2016 |
| Release date: | 2020/03/22 |
| Volume: | 31 |
| Number of pages: | 6 |
| First page: | 140 |
| Last Page: | 145 |
| Funding institution: | Leibniz Foundation |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
