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Experimental and physiological ecology of ammonia fungi: studies using natural substrates and artificial media

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Experiments using natural substrates and artificial media were categorized into three groups. Using experiments in these three categories, we investigated dispersion, invasion sequence, and decomposing ability of ammonia fungi in the field on natural substrates. Spore germination and vegetative and reproductive growth of ammonia fungi derived from monocultures and five-species cultures were assessed on natural substrates and on artificial media. These features assist understanding of the colonization and successive occurrence of ammonia fungi in the field based on estimation of interactions among the fungi and the physiological characteristics of each ammonia fungus. The sequential colonization and fruiting of ammonia fungi in the field can be explained primarily by the preference or tolerance of a species to high concentrations of ammonium-N under alkaline to neutral conditions. Succession of ammonia fungi results from their sequential colonization associated with the time needed for each fungus to produce reproductive structures. Colonization likely initiates from mycelia and/or spores preinhabiting the soil and from newly invading airborne propagules. Duration of occurrence of ammonia fungi in the field is shortened by the interactions among them. Saprobic ammonia fungi are the principal agents of litter decomposition under alkaline to neutral conditions.

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Parts of this review were presented as the presidential address of the Mycological Society of Japan (MSJ) at the Mycological Society of America (MSA) and MSJ Joint Meeting 2005 held in Hawaii in August 2005

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Suzuki, A. Experimental and physiological ecology of ammonia fungi: studies using natural substrates and artificial media. Mycoscience 47, 3–17 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10267-005-0270-8

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