Fungi Living in Plant Roots have Low Habitat and Host Specificities, But Highly Restricted Distributions

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Photo 1. A sampling site in the Veluwe region, The Netherlands, with local fauna. Photo credit: Jose G. Maciá-Vicente Photo 2. Collection of plant samples in a grassland at Los Alcornocales Natural Park, in southern Spain. Photo credit: Jose G. Maciá-Vicente Photo 3. An Eriophorum sp. plant being dug out at Fulufjället National Park, in Sweden. Photo credit: Jose G. Maciá-Vicente Photo 4. Processing of root samples in the laboratory, back in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Photo credit: Jose G. Maciá-Vicente Photo 5. Microscope images of fungal hyphae (arrows) colonizing roots of different plant species. All images were taken at 100× magnification. Photo credit: Jose G. Maciá-Vicente These photographs illustrate the article “Local endemism and ecological generalism in the assembly of root-colonizing fungi” by Jose G. Maciá-Vicente and Flavius Popa published in Ecological Monographs. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1489