Due to the wholesale destruction of plants at the K Pg boundary, there was a proliferation of saprotrophic organisms, such as fungi, that do not require photosynthesis and use nutrients from decaying vegetation.
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The DNA sequence data are of great importance for separating this taxon from related species . " V . asiaticus " is a saprotrophic fungus that was originally described as growing on the ground, in the humus layer.
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Certain areas have been fenced to allow the regeneration of the vegetation free of trampling, and dead wood is allowed to decay in situ -to the great benefit of saprotrophic fungi and a wide range of invertebrates.
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He proposed something of a compromise, placing colorless, saprotrophic euglenoids in the genus " Astasia ", while allowing some colorless euglenoids to share a genus with their photosynthesizing cousins, provided they had structural features that proved common ancestry.
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In terms of soil and humus creation, the most important fungi tend to be saprotrophic; that is, they live on dead or decaying organic matter, thus breaking it down and converting it to forms that are available to the higher plants.
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""'Rhodocybe " "'is a small genus of small and medium-sized brownish-pink spored mushrooms . " Rhodocybes " are saprotrophic and most grow on the ground, but some are found on wood.
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""'Stropharia ambigua " "', sometimes known as the "'questionable Stropharia "', is a saprotrophic agaric mushroom, commonly fruiting in leaf litter and wood chips in the western United States and Canada.
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It was originally described under the name " Pluteus michiganensis " but DNA sequence data are of great importance for separating this taxon from related species . " V . michiganensis " is a saprotrophic fungus that was originally described as growing on sawdust.
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""'Lichtheimia corymbifera " "'is a saprotrophic fungi in the phylum Zygomycota . " Lichtheimia corymbifera " is known to cause pulmonary, CNS, rhinocerebral, or cutaneous types of infection in animals and humans with impaired immunity.
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The saprotrophic nature of these species has been questioned, based on the observation that other inconspicuous, crust-forming fungi are ectomycorrhizal; a subsequent author reaffirms nevertheless that " [ n ] one of the corticioid species in the family shows any sign of mycorrhizal activity ."
