Learn about how one of the most expensive foods in the world disperses, and find out what these dispersers share.
Read moreTruffle like fungi and their unlikely, analogous dispersers
Tuber melanosporum
Island biogeography; speciation in an endangered Japanese Pine and a newly discovered mycorrhizal fungus
Island distribution of Pinus amamiana. These endangered pines grow on Southern islands of the Kagoshima Prefecture.
A newly described species of mycorrhizal fungi isolated from soils inhabited by endangered pines native to the islands of Southern Japan show the importance of taking a mycological approach in the field of conservation biology.
Read moreWillow interactions explain plant distributions in Alpine ecosystems.
One of the main alpine willow species found in CO, Salix glauca.
These series of experiment that took two years to carry out paint a more descriptive picture of what we see in alpine ecosystems. Compared to aboveground interactions, underground interactions have a stronger influence on species distributions in alpine habitats. Once again, we see how strong a force competition is.
Read moreImplications of mycorrhizae; Increased CO2 levels enhance mineral weathering
Three AMF hosts, Ginkgo biloba, Sequoia sempervirens and Magnolia grandiflora followed by two ECM hosts, Pinus sylvestris and Betula pendula. (f) AMF structures. (g) ECM rootlets. Quirk et al. 2014.
A new negative interaction uncovered in the wake of increased CO2 emissions.
Read moreBeneath the forest floor in a Costa Rican cloud forest
Lactarius indigo found in a cloud forest in Costa Rica.
In cloud forests in Costa Rica, insanely complex interactions are taking place beneath the forest floor.
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