Diversity, Abundance, and Ecological Roles of Planktonic Fungi in Marine Environments.

ABSTRACT: Fungi are considered terrestrial and oceans are a "fungal desert". However, with the considerable progress made over past decades, fungi have emerged as morphologically, phylogenetically, and functionally diverse components of the marine water column. Although their communities are influenced by a plethora of environmental factors, the most influential include salinity, temperature, nutrients, and dissolved oxygen, suggesting that fungi respond to local environmental gradients. The biomass carbon of planktonic fungi exhibits spatiotemporal dynamics and can reach up to 1 μg CL^-1 of seawater, rivaling bacteria on some occasions, which suggests their active and important role in the water column. In the nutrient-rich coastal water column, there is increasing evidence for their cont

SUBMITTER: Sen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9147564 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature