Biodiversity loss from disturbances caused by human activities means that species are
disappearing at an ever increasing rate. The high number of species that have yet to be …

Abstract Knowledge of the relationships and thus the classification of fungi, has developed
rapidly with increasingly widespread use of molecular techniques, over the past 10–15 …

High-throughput sequencing studies generate vast amounts of taxonomic data. Evolutionary
ecological hypotheses of the recovered taxa and Species Hypotheses are difficult to test due …

Numerous new taxa and classifications of Dothideomycetes have been published following
the last monograph of families of Dothideomycetes in 2013. A recent publication by …

Ninety years after Zahlbruckner, we present the most recent update to the classification of
lichen fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota to genus level, with species numbers and …

Abstract Index Fungorum, Species Fungorum and MycoBank are the key fungal
nomenclature and taxonomic databases that can be sourced to find taxonomic details …

The previous phylogenies of Sordariomycetes by ME Barr, OE Eriksson and DL
Hawksworth, and T. Lumbsch and S. Huhndorf, were mainly based on morphology and thus …

The current classification system for the recognition of taxonomic ranks among fungi,
especially at high-ranking level, is subjective. With the development of molecular …

Epifoliar fungi are one of the significant fungal groups typically living on the surface of
leaves. They are usually recorded as saprobes, obligate parasites and commensals and are …

The early‐successional status of lichens in modern terrestrial ecosystems, together with the
role lichen‐mediated weathering plays in the carbon cycle, have contributed to the long and …