Publications by authors named "Lukas Vlk"
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are crucial mutualistic symbionts of the majority of plant species, with essential roles in plant nutrient uptake and stress mitigation. The importance of AM fungi in ecosystems contrasts with our limited understanding of the patterns of AM fungal biogeography and the environmental factors that drive those patterns. This article presents a release of a newly developed global AM fungal dataset (GlobalAMFungi database, https://globalamfungi.
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- Alpine tundra ecosystems are changing because of warming temperatures, which are causing trees to move into areas where they didn't grow before and plants to change.
- Researchers studied how climate, soil, plants, and fungi interact in the tundra across different mountain ranges in Europe.
- As temperatures rise, certain plants are replacing others, leading to changes in fungi types, which could reduce the amount of fungi in the soil and decrease carbon storage in the environment.
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFungi are key players in vital ecosystem services, spanning carbon cycling, decomposition, symbiotic associations with cultivated and wild plants and pathogenicity. The high importance of fungi in ecosystem processes contrasts with the incompleteness of our understanding of the patterns of fungal biogeography and the environmental factors that drive those patterns. To reduce this gap of knowledge, we collected and validated data published on the composition of soil fungal communities in terrestrial environments including soil and plant-associated habitats and made them publicly accessible through a user interface at https://globalfungi.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlien plants represent a potential threat to environment and society. Understanding the process of alien plants naturalization is therefore of primary importance. In alien plants, successful establishment can be constrained by the absence of suitable fungal partners.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSurgery in drug use-associated infective endocarditis: long-term survival is negatively affected by recurrence.
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg
April 2020
Objectives: The prevalence of infectious endocarditis (IE) in intravenous drug users (IDUs) is increasing, and the number of patients who need surgery is also rising. Relatively little is known about the short-term and long-term outcomes of these operations.
Methods: This study is a retrospective analysis of our institutional results, focussing on risk factors for perioperative death, major adverse events and long-term survival.