Publications by authors named "Loise Araujo Costa"
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- - Freshwater hyphomycetes, essential decomposer fungi, are influenced by factors like temperature, water velocity, and nutrient availability, making monitoring their communities challenging, especially in tropical areas.
- - The study compared aquatic hyphomycetes in lakes and streams using two substrates and two sampling methods (moist chamber and submerged incubation), revealing that time and habitat type mainly drive changes in fungal composition.
- - Results showed significant differences in community conclusions based on sampling methods, highlighting the need for a combination of strategies to accurately assess fungal diversity in freshwater ecosystems.
The biodiversity of filamentous fungi and their ecological relationships in the context of decaying Araucaria angustifolia (an endangered conifer) substrates are still mostly unknown. The present study aimed to investigate the diversity of saprotrophic filamentous fungi, based on morphological identification, associated with A. angustifolia, in addition to assessing possible saprobic/plant affinity relationship, and verifying whether the study areas and substrates affect the composition of the mycobiota.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe investigated the composition and structure of fungal communities associated with leaf litter generated by Clusia nemorosa and Vismia guianensis that belong to phylogenetically-related botanical families and exist together in a remnant of the Atlantic Forest in Bahia, Brazil. Samplings were conducted during wet (June 2011) and dry (January 2013) seasons in Serra da Jibóia. The fungi were isolated using particle filtration and the 1,832 isolates represented 92 taxa.
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