OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Fungal Ecology is 5. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Black pepper pathogen suppression: Divergent rhizosphere fungal communities of healthy and diseased plants yield new insights for orchard management in Vietnam	35
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Nitrogen addition drives changes in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal richness through changes in plant species richness in revegetated alpine grassland	29
Flow-network adaptation and behavior in slime molds	20
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Evenness modulates effects of the loss of plant litter from rare species on fungal decomposers in tropical streams	17
Fungal endophyte effects on invasive Phragmites australis performance in field and growth chamber environments	17
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Besides stem canker severity, oilseed rape host genotype matters for the production of Leptosphaeria maculans fruit bodies	16
Fungal community structure, development and function in decomposing wood	15
Revealing the non-overlapping characteristics between original centers and genetic diversity of Purpureocillium lilacinum	14
Root contact dominates vegetative transmission of the Phialocephala fortinii s.l. – Acephala applanata species complex (PAC)	12
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Differences in spore size and atmospheric survival shape stark contrasts in the dispersal dynamics of two closely related fungal pathogens	12
Does electrical activity in fungi function as a language?	10
Species-specific trade-offs between regrowth and mycorrhizas in the face of defoliation and phosphorus addition	10
Fungal communities associated with roots of two closely related Juglandaceae species with a disjunct distribution in the tropics	9
Increase in Sarcosoma globosum observations reveals new fungal observation culture	9
Corrigendum to “Identifying the mechanisms that shape fungal community and metacommunity patterns in Yunnan, China” [Fungal Ecol. 42 (2019) 100862]	9
The cooler the better: Increased aquatic hyphomycete diversity in subtropical streams along a neotropical latitudinal gradient	9
Fungal communities associated with acorn woodpeckers and their excavations	9
Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi can disperse in the absence of their known vectors	9
Nitrogen and phosphorus additions affect fruiting of ectomycorrhizal fungi in a temperate hardwood forest	8
Climate change and plant-microbe interactions: Water-availability influences the effective specialization of a fungal pathogen	8
Electrical potentials in the ectomycorrhizal fungus Laccaria bicolor after a rainfall event	8

Microbial community composition unaffected by mycorrhizal plant removal in sub-arctic tundra	8
Can orchid mycorrhizal fungi be persistently harbored by the plant host?	8
Mycorrhizal driven positive feedbacks and forest resilience to reduced rainfall	8
Metabolic activity on Biolog FF MicroPlate suggests organic substrate decomposition by Aspergillus terreus NTOU4989 isolated from Kueishan Island Hydrothermal Vent Field, Taiwan	8
Restoration of the mycobiome of the endangered Hawaiian mint Phyllostegia kaalaensis increases its resistance to a common powdery mildew	8
Carbon cycling through plant and fungal herbarium specimens tracks the Suess effect over more than a century of environmental change	7
Does long-term grazing cause cascading impacts on the soil microbiome in mountain birch forests?	7
Seagrasses, seaweeds and plant debris: An extraordinary reservoir of fungal diversity in the Mediterranean Sea	7
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
Seasonal consumption of mycorrhizal fungi by a marsupial-dominated mammal community	7
Intrinsic growth rate and cellobiohydrolase activity underlie the phylogenetic signal to fungal decomposer succession	7
Saprotrophic and ectomycorrhizal fungi exhibit contrasting richness patterns along elevational gradients in cool-temperate montane forests	7
Grazing by collembola controls fungal induced soil aggregation	7
Lichens as material for Lepidoptera's housing: A molecular approach to a widespread and highly selective interaction	7
Habitat matters: The role of spore bank fungi in early seedling establishment of Florida slash pines	6
Proportion of mycorrhiza-associated trees mediates community assemblages of soil fungi but not of bacteria	6
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Convergent evolution unites the population genetics of Protea-associated ophiostomatoid fungi	6
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Consequences of fire and other prairie management treatments for macrofungi in the Pacific Northwest of the U. S. A.	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
The response of lichens inhabiting exposed wood of spruce logs to post-hurricane disturbances in Western Carpathian forests	6
Fungus-insect symbiosis: Diversity and negative ecological role of the hypocrealean fungus Trichoderma harzianum in colonies of neotropical termites (Blattodea: Termitidae)	6
Plant community and soil available nutrients drive arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community shifts during alpine meadow degradation	5
Strict substrate requirements alongside rapid substrate turnover may indicate an early colonization: A case study of Pleurotus calyptratus (Agaricales, Basidiomycota)	5
Bark beetle outbreaks in Picea abies stands are associated with changes in wood-inhabiting fungal communities and seedling establishment on logs	5
Interaction between growth environment and host progeny shape fungal endophytic assemblages in transplanted Fagus sylvatica	5
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
Ratio-dependent functional response of two common Cladocera present in farmland ponds to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	5
Wood-decay type and fungal guild dominance across a North American log transplant experiment	5
Linking wood-decay fungal communities to decay rates: Using a long-term experimental manipulation of deadwood and canopy gaps	5
Beetles provide directed dispersal of viable spores of a keystone wood decay fungus	5
Endophyte inoculation enhances Ulmus minor resistance to Dutch elm disease	5
Intraspecific interactions among wood-decay fungi alter decay rates and dynamics of interspecific interactions	5
Decreased diversity and connectivity of endophytic fungal assemblages within cultivated European olive trees compared to their native African counterpart	5
Leptographium terebrantis inoculation and associated crown symptoms and tree mortality in Pinus taeda	5
Modelling germination and mycelium growth rates of Monostichella coryli under constant temperature conditions	5