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View article: Fungal Resources for Human Well-being: Implications for Poverty and Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Fungal Resources for Human Well-being: Implications for Poverty and Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa Open
Wild Useful Fungi (WUF) offer substantial yet underexplored opportunities to enhance livelihoods, address gender disparities, and alleviate poverty across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This paper synthesizes the growing body of empirical liter…
View article: Discovery of the closest free-living relative of the domesticated “magic mushroom”<i>Psilocybe cubensis</i>in Africa
Discovery of the closest free-living relative of the domesticated “magic mushroom”<i>Psilocybe cubensis</i>in Africa Open
The “magic mushroom” Psilocybe cubensis is cultivated worldwide for recreational and medicinal uses. Described initially from Cuba in 1904, there has been substantial debate about its origin and diversification. The prevailing view, first …
View article: Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity
Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity Open
How the multiple facets of soil fungal diversity vary worldwide remains virtually unknown, hindering the management of this essential species-rich group. By sequencing high-resolution DNA markers in over 4000 topsoil samples from natural a…
View article: Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity
Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity Open
How the multiple facets of soil fungal diversity vary worldwide remains virtually unknown, hindering the management of this essential species-rich group. By sequencing high-resolution DNA markers in over 4000 topsoil samples from natural a…
View article: Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity
Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity Open
How the multiple facets of soil fungal diversity vary worldwide remains virtually unknown, hindering the management of this essential species-rich group. By sequencing high-resolution DNA markers in over 4000 topsoil samples from natural a…
View article: Global patterns in endemicity and vulnerability of soil fungi
Global patterns in endemicity and vulnerability of soil fungi Open
Fungi are highly diverse organisms, which provide multiple ecosystem services. However, compared with charismatic animals and plants, the distribution patterns and conservation needs of fungi have been little explored. Here, we examined en…
View article: Towards understanding diversity, endemicity and global change vulnerability of soil fungi
Towards understanding diversity, endemicity and global change vulnerability of soil fungi Open
Summary Fungi play pivotal roles in ecosystem functioning, but little is known about their global patterns of diversity, endemicity, vulnerability to global change drivers and conservation priority areas. We applied the high-resolution Pac…
View article: The Global Soil Mycobiome consortium dataset for boosting fungal diversity research
The Global Soil Mycobiome consortium dataset for boosting fungal diversity research Open