Biogeography of Mycorrhizal Symbiosis

Overview of phylogenetic approaches to mycorrhizal biogeography, diversity and evolution.- Population Biology and Ecology of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi.- Spore dispersal in ectomycorrhizal fungi at fine and regional scales.- Processes maintaining the co-existence of ectomycorrhizal fungi at a fine spatial scale.- Altitudinal gradients in mycorrhizal symbioses: The current state of knowledge on how richness and community structure change with elevation.- Ectomycorrhizal fungal lineages: detection of four new groups and notes on consistent recognition of ectomycorrhizal taxa in high-throughput sequencing studies.- The predictive power of ecological niche modeling for global arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal biogeography.- Biogeography of orchid mycorrhizas .- Biogeography of ericoid mycorrhiza.- Biogeography of root-associated fungal endophytes.- Global patters of mycorrhizal distribution, and their environmental drivers.- Biogeography and ecology of Tulasnellaceae.- Biogeography of the ectomycorrhizal mushroom genus Laccaria.- Progress and challenges in understanding the biology, diversity, and biogeography of Cenococcum geophilum.- Biogeography of the Japanese gourmet fungus, Tricholoma matsutake: a review of the distribution and functional ecology of matsutake.- Biogeography and specificity of ectomycorrhizal fungi of Coccoloba uvifera.- Distribution and evolution of mycorrhiza types and other specialised roots in Australia.- Global patterns in local and dark diversity, species pool size and community completeness in ectomycorrhizal fungi.- Evolution of ectomycorrhizal symbiosis in plants.- Global biogeography and invasions of ectomycorrhizal plants: past, present and future. Global diversity and importance of mycorrhizal and nonmycorrhizal plants.

Leho Tedersoo

University of Tartu

Tartu, Estonia

email: leho.tedersoo@ut.ee

"This is a timely and comprehensive overview of a key topic rarely addressed in treatises on mycorrhizal associations ... . I found this a most insightful, stimulating, well-edited, and even exciting work. The editor is to be congratulated on having had the vision and energy necessary to bring it to completion." (IMA Fungus, Vol. 8 (02), December, 2017)