title: Method or madness: does OTU delineation bias our perceptions of fungal ecology?
authors.affiliation: Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Richmond, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Jeff R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Powell
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 66047, USA.
authors.forename: Benjamin A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Sikes
mesh_terms: D005658:Fungi / Q000145:classification*; D038821:Mycorrhizae / Q000145:classification*
keywords: alpha diversity; arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi; beta diversity; high-throughput sequencing; niche conservatism; operational taxonomic unit (OTU) delineation; species concepts