Michael G. Booth

TL;DR: It was found that soil horizon was the factor by which fungal communities were most strongly structured and that pre- dictable turnover in upland fungal species occurred through succession, and the capacity of individual taxa in these hyperdiverse communities to respond strongly to resource inputs and changes in other abiotic environmental parameters such as temperature.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate large positive effects of overstory mycorrhizal networks on seedling survival, along with simultaneous negative effects of tree roots, regardless of whether plant genotypes were locally derived.

TL;DR: In this paper, internal transcribed spacer rDNA sequences from both curated sporocarp collections and soil polymerase chain reaction clone libraries sampled in the arctic tundra and boreal forests of Alaska were analyzed.

TL;DR: A primer‐tagging approach that allows pooling and subsequent sorting of numerous samples, which is directed to amplification of a region spanning the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacers and partial large subunit from fungi in environmental samples, suggests that the pig‐tagged primers can be used to increase ecological inference in high throughput sequencing projects on fungi.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that some of the diversity of one of the most diverse and abundant ectomycorrhizal genera in Alaska, Russula, is niche based, especially along host and successional axes, because most OTUs predictably occurred in specific habitats, regardless of geographical location.