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Oct 23, 2024 · Under favourable environmental conditions, fungal spores germinate and form hyphae. During this process, the spore absorbs water through its wall, the cytoplasm becomes activated, nuclear division takes place, and more cytoplasm is synthesized. The wall initially grows as a spherical structure. Once polarity is established, a hyphal apex forms ...
Fungi may be locally abundant where pollution or natural inputs enrich groundwater with organic compounds, but when the groundwaters are anoxic, the fungi are less abundant than in oxic water. An interesting mode of nutrition for some aquatic fungi is predation on rotifers or nematodes.
Mar 12, 2019 · Fungi are phylogenetically and functionally diverse ubiquitous components of almost all ecosystems on Earth, including aquatic environments stretching from high montane lakes down to the deep...
- Hans-Peter Grossart, Hans-Peter Grossart, Silke Van den Wyngaert, Maiko Kagami, Christian Wurzbacher...
- 2019
Jul 1, 2011 · Research on freshwater fungi has concentrated on their role in plant litter decomposition in streams. Higher fungi dominate over bacteria in terms of biomass, production and enzymatic substrate degradation.
- Gerd-Joachim Krauss, Magali Solé, Gudrun Krauss, Dietmar Schlosser, Dirk Wesenberg, Felix Bärlocher
- 2011
Fungi thrive in environments that are moist and slightly acidic, and can grow with or without light. They vary in their oxygen requirements. Most fungi are obligate aerobes, requiring oxygen to survive.
Jun 6, 2011 · The methods would be the same for fungi. This article gives a good introduction to the thermodynamics of water potentials, experimental methodologies and experimental pitfalls.
Aquatic fungi are usually microscopic organisms, which do not produce visible fruiting bodies but grow asexually (anamorphic fungi). Their occurrence in water is rather subtle and specialised methods are needed to examine their diversity, population structure and ecological function. Water associated fungi have been known historically as
