The magnitude of fungal diversity: the 1.5 million species estimate revisited * * Paper presented at

By D. L. Hawksworth. 2001

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Contrasting functional traits maintain lichen epiphyte diversity in response to climate and autogenic succession (2006, background): “Lichens are extremely biologically diverse (Galloway, 1992; Hawksworth, 2001), and functionally important in terrestrial ecosystems (Knops et al., 1991, 1996; Arseneault et al., 1997).”
Competitive interactions among three ectomycorrhizal fungi and their relation to host plant performance (2007, background): “1998; Hawksworth 2001).”
Integrative approaches for species delimitation in Ascomycota (2021, background): “As with most organisms, Ascomycota species richness is highest in the tropics, and they fulfil many vital roles in all ecosystems (Hawksworth 2001; Wu et al.”
Endophytic fungal communities in woody perennials of three tropical forest types of the Western Ghats, southern India (2011, background): “Fröhlich and Hyde (1999) and Arnold et al. (2000) extrapolated their data obtained for a few tropical plants by using plant host:endophytes ratios and concluded that the widely accepted figure of 1.5 million species of Hawksworth (2001) vastly underestimates fungal diversity.”
The numbers of fungi: is the descriptive curve flattening? (2020, background): “Most studies have been the result of short surveys or visits to tropical forests by experts concentrating on specific groups (Hawksworth 2001, 2012).”
Assessment of Soil Microbial Community Structure by Use of Taxon-Specific Quantitative PCR Assays (2005, background): “The diversity of the bacterial and fungal communities in soil is extraordinary (8, 27, 29).”
The potential of symptomless potted plants for carrying invasive soilborne plant pathogens (2015, background): “Fungi and fungal-like organisms are a major and largely unknown component of the soil’s living communities (Hawksworth, 2001; Jeffery et al., 2010).”
The Trichoderma brevicompactum clade: a separate lineage with new species, new peptaibiotics, and mycotoxins (2008, background): “However ‘small’ these differences are, they are representative of the species diversity and are taxonomically significant, a point that was made by Hawksworth (2001) with regard to the true diversity of species of fungi.”