@article {6277,
	title = {Pleoardoris graminearum gen. et sp. nov., a new member of Pleosporales from the North American Plains, biogeography and effects on B. gracilis growth},
	journal = {Mycologia},
	year = {In Press},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ},
	author = {Pinchi-Davila, X. and Vargas-Hernandez, D. and Romero-Jimenez, M. and Jumpponen, A. and Rudgers, J. and Herrera, J. and Hutchinson, M. and Dunbar, J.M. and Kuske, C. and Porras-Alfaro, A.}
}
@article {6000,
	title = {Biogeography of root-associated fungi in foundation grasses of North American plains},
	journal = {Biogeography},
	volume = {49},
	year = {2022},
	pages = {22-37},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ},
	doi = {10.1111/jbi.14260},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jbi.14260},
	author = {Rudgers, J.A. and Fox, S. and Porras-Alfaro, A. and Herrera, J. and Reazin, C. and Kent, D.R. and Souza, L. and Chung, Y.A. and Jumpponen, A.}
}
@book {KNZ001829,
	title = {Biogeography of root-associated endophytes. In: Biogeography of Mycorrhizal Symbiosis},
	volume = {230},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {195-222},
	publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
	organization = {Springer International Publishing},
	address = {Cham},
	abstract = {<p>Healthy plant roots usually host heterogeneous communities of root endophytes that are abundant in all plants and ecosystems. Despite their abundance, current understanding of the distribution of these endophytes is superficial at the best. A comprehensive treatise of the distribution of variety of fungi described as root endophytes would most likely prove an exhausting exercise in futility, given the large gaps in current data. As a result, we broadly target the helotialean endophytes that are commonly observed in temperate and boreal, forested ecosystems and the pleosporalean endophytes commonly observed in grassland ecosystems. To explore the sparse data available for the distribution of these root-associated fungal endophytes, we combine references from current literature and a case study to evaluate whether or not the endophyte communities (1) shift over environmental gradients, (2) respond to some specific drivers, or (3) seem limited by dispersal by showing distance-decay responses. The data indicate that communities of endophytic fungi indeed change over large geographical scales. The available data suggest a Helotiales-dominated endophyte guild in forested ecosystems and a Pleosporales-dominated assemblage in grassland ecosystems. Further, large-scale studies and our preliminary analyses of communities across North American grassland ecosystems suggest some shifts corresponding to geographical/environmental gradients. However, specific drivers are difficult to distinguish because abiotic gradients are often correlated, resulting in complex model selection problems. Finally, we observed that our own and published data reach no agreement on distance decay, even though both agree that the distance decay may be of rather minor importance.</p>},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ, Distance decay, Environmental filtering, Helotiales, Pleosporales},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-56363-3},
	url = {https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007\%2F978-3-319-56363-3},
	author = {A. Jumpponen and Herrera, J. and Porras-Alfaro, A. and Rudgers, J.}
}
@article {KNZ001418,
	title = {Shifting fungal endophyte communities colonize Bouteloua gracilis: effect of host tissue and geographical distribution},
	journal = {Mycologia},
	volume = {102},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {1012 -1026},
	abstract = {<p>Communities of root-associated fungi (RAF) commonly have been studied under the auspices of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) or ectomycorrhizal fungi. However many studies now indicate that other groups of endophytic RAF, including dark septate endophytes (DSE) are more abundant in some plants and environments. The common forage grass, Bouteloua gracilis, was used as a model to examine whether RAF also colonize different organs within the same plant and to compare RAF communities from sites across North America, spanning the latitudinal range of B. gracilis (from Canada to Mexico). We compared the RAF communities of organs within individual plants at one site and within plant roots among six sites. With the possible exception of one group related to genus Paraphaeosphaeria there was little evidence that RAF colonized vertically beyond the crowns. Furthermore, although there was some variation in the constitution of rare members of the RAF communities, several taxonomically related groups dominated the RAF community at all sites. These dominant taxa included members in the Pleosporales (related to the DSE, Paraphaeosphaeria spp.), Agaricales (related to Moniliophthora spp., or Campanella spp.) and Hypocreales (related to Fusarium spp.). AMF were notable by their near absence. Similar phylotypes from the dominant groups clustered around adjacent sites so that similarity of the RAF communities was negatively correlated to site inter-distance and the RAF communities appeared to group by country. These results increase the possibility that at least some of these common and widely distributed core members of the RAF community form important, intimate and long lasting relationships with grasses.</p>},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ, Bouteloua gracilis, dark septate endophytes, endophytic fungi, grassland fungi, Grasslands National Park, Janos, Konza Prairie, Llanos de Ojuelos, Sevilleta, Wind Cave National Park},
	doi = {10.3852/09-264},
	url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3852/09-264?journalCode=umyc20},
	author = {Herrera, J. and Khidir, H.H. and Eudy, D.M. and Porras-Alfaro, A. and Natvig, D.O. and Sinsabaugh, R.L.}
}
