Fungi of the Barents sea

Abstract

The role of marine mycobiota, which includes marine fungi and fungi-like, is, first of all, in the decomposition of detritus, as well as in the formation of symbiotic relationships with other hydrobionts, and most often it is parasitism or mutualism. The paper presents a generalization of data on the mycobiota of the Barents Sea, as the most studied of the Arctic seas. This allowed the authors to evaluate the role of this little-studied component of the ecosystem, as well as to determine future directions of research of marine mycobiota for the Arctic region as a whole.