OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Fungal Ecology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Black pepper pathogen suppression: Divergent rhizosphere fungal communities of healthy and diseased plants yield new insights for orchard management in Vietnam	53
Volatilome of Australian Ips grandicollis-associated ophiostomatoid fungi	35
Secondary metabolites and their impact on symbiotic interactions in the ambrosia fungus Geosmithia eupagioceri	34
Fungal ecology at treelines	22
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Flow-network adaptation and behavior in slime molds	18
Fungal endophyte effects on invasive Phragmites australis performance in field and growth chamber environments	17
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Evenness modulates effects of the loss of plant litter from rare species on fungal decomposers in tropical streams	16
Besides stem canker severity, oilseed rape host genotype matters for the production of Leptosphaeria maculans fruit bodies	14
Revealing the non-overlapping characteristics between original centers and genetic diversity of Purpureocillium lilacinum	13
Fungal community structure, development and function in decomposing wood	13
Root contact dominates vegetative transmission of the Phialocephala fortinii s.l. – Acephala applanata species complex (PAC)	12
Species-specific trade-offs between regrowth and mycorrhizas in the face of defoliation and phosphorus addition	12
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Does electrical activity in fungi function as a language?	10
Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi can disperse in the absence of their known vectors	10
Nitrogen and phosphorus additions affect fruiting of ectomycorrhizal fungi in a temperate hardwood forest	9
The cooler the better: Increased aquatic hyphomycete diversity in subtropical streams along a neotropical latitudinal gradient	9
Metabolic activity on Biolog FF MicroPlate suggests organic substrate decomposition by Aspergillus terreus NTOU4989 isolated from Kueishan Island Hydrothermal Vent Field, Taiwan	9
Nitrogen addition drives changes in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal richness through changes in plant species richness in revegetated alpine grassland	9
Pine seedlings select a consistent ectomycorrhizal community regardless of water availability and inoculum origin	9
Mycorrhizal driven positive feedbacks and forest resilience to reduced rainfall	8
Climate change and plant-microbe interactions: Water-availability influences the effective specialization of a fungal pathogen	8

Fungal communities associated with roots of two closely related Juglandaceae species with a disjunct distribution in the tropics	8
Microbial community composition unaffected by mycorrhizal plant removal in sub-arctic tundra	8
Restoration of the mycobiome of the endangered Hawaiian mint Phyllostegia kaalaensis increases its resistance to a common powdery mildew	8
Corrigendum to “Identifying the mechanisms that shape fungal community and metacommunity patterns in Yunnan, China” [Fungal Ecol. 42 (2019) 100862]	8
Electrical potentials in the ectomycorrhizal fungus Laccaria bicolor after a rainfall event	8
Can orchid mycorrhizal fungi be persistently harbored by the plant host?	8
Land-cover and climate factors contribute to the prevalence of the ectoparasitic fungus Laboulbenia formicarum in its invasive ant host Lasius neglectus	7
Ericoid mycorrhizal colonization and associated fungal communities along a wetland gradient in the Acadian forest of Eastern Canada	7
Carbon cycling through plant and fungal herbarium specimens tracks the Suess effect over more than a century of environmental change	7
Fungal communities associated with acorn woodpeckers and their excavations	7
Saprotrophic and ectomycorrhizal fungi exhibit contrasting richness patterns along elevational gradients in cool-temperate montane forests	7
Lichens as material for Lepidoptera's housing: A molecular approach to a widespread and highly selective interaction	7
Intrinsic growth rate and cellobiohydrolase activity underlie the phylogenetic signal to fungal decomposer succession	7
Seagrasses, seaweeds and plant debris: An extraordinary reservoir of fungal diversity in the Mediterranean Sea	7
Does long-term grazing cause cascading impacts on the soil microbiome in mountain birch forests?	7
Grazing by collembola controls fungal induced soil aggregation	7
Increase in Sarcosoma globosum observations reveals new fungal observation culture	7
Differences in spore size and atmospheric survival shape stark contrasts in the dispersal dynamics of two closely related fungal pathogens	7
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Seasonal consumption of mycorrhizal fungi by a marsupial-dominated mammal community	6
The response of lichens inhabiting exposed wood of spruce logs to post-hurricane disturbances in Western Carpathian forests	6
Consequences of fire and other prairie management treatments for macrofungi in the Pacific Northwest of the U. S. A.	6
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Bark beetle outbreaks in Picea abies stands are associated with changes in wood-inhabiting fungal communities and seedling establishment on logs	6
Veteranising Scots pine trees by initiating tree hollowing: Inoculation with the fungal keystone species Porodaedalia pini	6
Truffles in the sky: The impact of stochastic and deterministic drivers on Rhizopogon communities of the Madrean sky island archipelago	6
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Fungus-insect symbiosis: Diversity and negative ecological role of the hypocrealean fungus Trichoderma harzianum in colonies of neotropical termites (Blattodea: Termitidae)	6
Leptographium terebrantis inoculation and associated crown symptoms and tree mortality in Pinus taeda	6
Decreased diversity and connectivity of endophytic fungal assemblages within cultivated European olive trees compared to their native African counterpart	6
Proportion of mycorrhiza-associated trees mediates community assemblages of soil fungi but not of bacteria	6
The balance between accumulation and loss of soil organic matter in subarctic forest is related to ratios of saprotrophic, ecto- and ericoid mycorrhizal fungal guilds	5
Modelling germination and mycelium growth rates of Monostichella coryli under constant temperature conditions	5
Ratio-dependent functional response of two common Cladocera present in farmland ponds to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	5
Does ectomycorrhizal fungal biodiversity affect tree growth?	5
Occurrence of Psychrophilomyces antarcticus in the Arctic	5
Intraspecific interactions among wood-decay fungi alter decay rates and dynamics of interspecific interactions	5
Wood-decay type and fungal guild dominance across a North American log transplant experiment	5
Interaction between growth environment and host progeny shape fungal endophytic assemblages in transplanted Fagus sylvatica	5
Endophyte inoculation enhances Ulmus minor resistance to Dutch elm disease	5
Strict substrate requirements alongside rapid substrate turnover may indicate an early colonization: A case study of Pleurotus calyptratus (Agaricales, Basidiomycota)	5
The effects of grazing history, soil properties and stand structure on the communities of saprotrophic fungi in wood-pastures	5
Host-specificity of moss-associated fungal communities in the Ny-Ålesund region (Svalbard, High Arctic) as revealed by amplicon pyrosequencing	4
Transcriptomic and protein analysis of Trametes versicolor interacting with a Hypholoma fasciculare mycelium foraging in soil	4
Convergent evolution unites the population genetics of Protea-associated ophiostomatoid fungi	4
Disease risk of the foliar endophyte Colletotrichum from invasive Ageratina adenophora to native plants and crops	4
Linking wood-decay fungal communities to decay rates: Using a long-term experimental manipulation of deadwood and canopy gaps	4
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal abundance in elevation belts of the hyperarid Atacama Desert	4
Shifts in root-associated fungal communities under drought conditions in Ricinus communis	4

The role and fate of patulin in apple-associated fungal-fungal interactions	4
Plant community and soil available nutrients drive arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community shifts during alpine meadow degradation	4
Fungal community composition and diversity in the rhizosphere soils of Argentina (syn. Potentilla) anserina, on the Qinghai Plateau	4
Beetles provide directed dispersal of viable spores of a keystone wood decay fungus	4
Response of fungal endophyte communities within Andropogon gerardii (Big bluestem) to nutrient addition and herbivore exclusion	4
Substrate affinities of wood decay fungi are foremost structured by wood properties not climate	4
Habitat matters: The role of spore bank fungi in early seedling establishment of Florida slash pines	4
Malassezia is widespread and has undescribed diversity in the marine environment	4
Diurnal patterns and conidial dynamics of Batkoa major, a generalist entomophthoralean pathogen	4
Relationships between macro-fungal dark diversity and habitat parameters using LiDAR	4
Global richness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	3
Inside Pandora's box: Development of the lethal myrmecopathogenic fungus Pandora formicae within its ant host	3
Environmental factors and host genetic variation shape the fungal endophyte communities within needles of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)	3
Symbiosis with endophyte leads to greater C accumulation in grassland soils	3
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Fine-scale genetic diversity and genet dynamics of the fairy ring fungus Floccularia luteovirens on the Qinghai–Tibet plateau	3
Fungal endophytes of the invasive grass Eragrostis lehmanniana shift metabolic expression in response to native and invasive grasses	3
Susceptibility of pruning wounds to grapevine trunk disease pathogens Eutypa lata and Diplodia seriata in three climatic conditions in Australia	3
Crown closure affects endophytic leaf mycobiome compositional dynamics over time in Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii	3
Low temperature enhances the ability of the termite-egg-mimicking fungus Athelia termitophila to compete against wood-decaying fungi	3
Host phylogeny is the primary determinant of ectomycorrhizal fungal community composition in the permafrost ecosystem of eastern Siberia at a regional scale	3
Analysis of digitized herbarium records and community science observations provides a glimpse of downy mildew species diversity of North America, reveals potentially undescribed species, and documents	3
The potential saprotrophic capacity of foliar endophytic fungi from Quercus gambelii	3
Chinese caterpillar fungus range shifts in response to climate change based on the interspecific relationships on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	3
Temperature sensitivity of soil-borne fungal phytopathogens depends on niche breadth and land use types	3
The impact of polyphenolic compounds on the in vitro growth of oak-associated foliar endophytic and saprotrophic fungi	3
What determines species composition and diversity of hypogeous fungi in the diet of small mammals? A comparison across mammal species, habitat types and seasons in Central European mountains	3
Nitrogen deposition and temperature structure fungal communities associated with alpine moss-sedge heath in the UK	3
Composition and diversity of endolichenic microfungal communities from saxicolous lichens at Nahal Boker, the central Negev Desert, Israel	3
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Temporal dynamics of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities in Shorea siamensis forest fragments	3
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Determinants of host specificity in ectomycorrhizal fungi: A focus on host and fungal biogeography	2
Soil fungal communities are compositionally resistant to drought manipulations – Evidence from culture-dependent and culture-independent analyses	2
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Fungi associated with aeroponic roots in caves and mines of New Brunswick	2
Morchella galilaea – Expanded phylogeography and relaxed seasonality of a globally distributed autumnal morel	2
Live imaging of momentary sporangiospore extrusion from trichospores and its morphological changes in Zancudomyces culisetae (Harpellales)	2
Using barcoding to reveal ecological patterns of nivicolous myxomycetes in the German Alps: How do they deal with varying snow conditions?	2
In silico environmental sampling of emerging fungal pathogens via big data analysis	2
Corrigendum to “Z-3-Hexenylacetate emissions induced by the endophyte Epichloë occultans at different levels of defoliation during the host plant's life cycle” [Fungal Ecol. 49 (2021) 101015]	2
Climate-induced long-term changes in the phenology of Mediterranean fungi	2
Polyphyly, asexual reproduction and dual trophic mode in Buchwaldoboletus	2
Enhancing repository fungal data for biogeographic analyses	2
Electrical signal transfer characteristics of mycelium-bound composites and fungal fruiting bodies	2
Root and hyphal interactions influence N transfer by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soybean/maize intercropping systems	2
Spatiotemporal distribution and dynamic changes of myxomycetes in subtropical forests of China	2
Epichloë endophyte affects the root colonization pattern of belowground symbionts in a wild grass	2
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Limited impacts of the fungus Syncephalastrum on nests of leaf-cutting ants	2
Endophytes dominate fungal communities in six-year-old veteranisation wounds in living oak trunks	2
Hidden diversity within Beauveria and Metarhizium – Comparing morphology, barcoding, multilocus phylogenies and whole-genome sequences	2