ARTICLE 1 , 518055 2618 Tallinn, 2618 Tallinn, Key words: endophytic fungi macrofungal communities Mediterranean molecular ecology mycorrhizas orchid-fungus relationships spatial distribution species coexistence IMA FUNGUS · 9(1): 1–11 (2018) 1–11 · 9(1): FUNGUS IMA
1 (22.5 2012). The presence and distribution et al. 2012). et al. 2015). e characterised Nearly all previous studies carried out to determine fungal $ \ , and Zhong-Jian Liu , and Zhong-Jian 5 (26 %), Tulasnellaceae ^_` mycorrhizal fungi could mediate terrestrial orchid species mycorrhizal fungi could mediate terrestrial The extent to which coexistence, driving niche partitioning. the distribution and fungal communities may determine unclear (McCormick dynamics of orchid populations remains et al. 2012, McCormick & Jacquemyn 2014). diversity in orchid sites have been based on experimental from orchid seed-sowing and/or sequencing of fungal DNA tissues (Dearnaley 2007, McCormick & Jacquemyn 2014). Such experiments are limited in only providing information establish associations with the on the fungi that effectively " of potentially symbiotic fungi, as well as the diversity of the associated fungal community in nature have remained unexplored (Oja presence and abundance of suitable mycorrhizal fungi, but also by the total diversity of associated fungi naturally occurring in " and indirect interactions between and within the fungi, and also Ceratobasidiaceae , Vijai Kumar Gupta , Vijai 3 ? ' FX[\] , Lei Cai 4 -like fungi belonging to is particularly dependent on , Tancredi Caruso , Tancredi Rhizoctonia
1, 2, 3 (2014), however, demonstrated that et al. (2014), however, Orchids are critically dependent on fungi for seedling establishment and growth, so the dependent on fungi for seedling establishment Orchids are critically