Aquatic Fungi: From Natural Ecosystems to Unusual Habitats (or) under Environmental Changes
A special issue of Journal of Fungi (ISSN 2309-608X). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental and Ecological Interactions of Fungi".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 6271
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microfungi and freshwater fungi; fungal systematics/taxnomy; mycological diversity; polyphasic fungal identification; decomposition and degradation by fungi; extreme environment/usual habitat derived micro-fungi; agricultural residue-degrading fungi; mycelium-based composite
Interests: asexual fungi; nomenclature; taxonomy; phylogeny; marine and fresh water fungi; fungi in extreme environments; timber pathogens
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Aquatic fungi (AF) are a diverse group of organisms that occur in naturally aquatic ecosystems, i.e., water-related, freshwater, marine, and brackish water habitats, and other extreme water environments. Aquatic fungi comprise highly diverse fungal groups and non-fungal members such as Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, Chytridiomycota, Zygomycota, Cryptomycota, yeasts, fungal asexual morphs, and taxa traditionally treated as fungi (e.g., oomycetes and zoosporic fungi).
Currently, a change of global environment is most often driven by anthropogenic influences and natural ecological processes, resulting in large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Examples of these changes include aquatic shortages, flooding, stratospheric ozone depletion, biodiversity loss, atmospheric–land–aquatic pollutants, climate change, and global warming. These environmental changes are expected to have an impact on fungal diversity patterns and on mycological functions in water habitats. In addition, unusual or extreme conditions in water ecosystems are expected to prevent the development of aquatic mycobiota and pose grave danger to aquatic fungi and fungal-like microbes for their survivals. Stress conditions may be extremely high or low: content of oxygen or carbon dioxide; high levels of acidity, or alkalinity; absence of water; water containing a high concentration of salt or sugar; and the presence of sulfur, petroleum, and other toxic substances, for example.
The aim of this Special Issue is to focus on the diversity, taxonomy, evolution, and ecology of aquatic fungi (marine and freshwater fungi) and fungal-like microbes from the natural field studies, in globally environmental changes or in unusual/extreme environments.
Topics include but are not limited to biodiversity, distribution, traditional method, phylogeny, functional diversity, and fungal interactions of aquatic fungi as the follows: (1) aquatic fungi from naturally aquatic ecosystems; (2) aquatic fungi under globally environmental changes; or (3) aquatic fungi in unusual/extreme habitats (i.e., hot spring, mud pool, hypersaline, deep ocean, geographical poles, and glaciers). Manuscripts summarizing recent advances in the topic or introducing novel experimental methods are also welcome.
Dr. Nattawut Boonyuen
Prof. Dr. Nalin Wijayawardene
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Ascomycota and asexual morph
- Chytridiomycota
- Oomycota
- Ecology
- freshwater fungi
- marine fungi
- marine-derived fungi
- fungal-like organisms/microbes
- fungal systematics
- phylogeny
- fungal evolution
- mycological taxonomy
- fungal diversity
- fungal ecology
- taxonomy
