Aquatic fungi: largely neglected targets for conservation

Vatova, Mariyana; Rubin, Conrad; Grossart, Hans‐Peter; Gonçalves, Susana C; Schmidt, Susanne I; Jarić, Ivan

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Aquatic fungi (true fungi and fungi-like oomycetes) are a diverse group that plays a key role in aquatic ecosystems through carbon and nutrient cycling, production of essential organic compounds, foodweb dynamics, and energy flow (Gladfelter et al. 2019; Grossart et al. 2019; Ruess and Müller-Navarra 2019) (Figure 1). They have the ability to shift foodweb structure, affect eco-evolutionary processes via biotic interactions, and help in the degradation of pollutants (Harms et al. 2011). Despite their critical importance for aquatic ecosystems, some groups such as oomycetes and chytrid fungi are poorly studied, with the majority of species not yet described, and their ecosystem functions not properly understood (Shearer et al. 2007; Grossart and Rojas-Jimenez 2016; Amend et al. 2019; Grossart et al. 2019).