Population genetic consequences of habitat fragmentation in ectomycorrhizal fungi with different dispersal mechanisms: implications from ice-aged relict forests across the Japanese archipelago.

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BACKGROUND: Recent human activities have caused extensive forest fragmentation, which can profoundly affect the population genetic structure of soil microbes, as has been well documented for plants and animals. However, such information remains scarce for microbes, even for ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi, which play key roles in the growth and survival of dominant forest trees. To investigate the long-term effects...

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• Basidiomycota
• Ecosystem
• Forests
• Genetics, Population
• Japan