Learn about the riveting ecology of these slow-moving mammals and how a weekly behavior promotes the health of their fur microbiome. It just so happens that this fur microbiome could eventually help humans fight diseases and cancer in the modern age.
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Leafcutter ant selection drives community assembly in the American tropics.
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Laternea pusilla, photo by Alan Rockefeller.
To satiate my healthy obsession with the forest floor and the fungus it brings, I sometimes have to live vicariously through friends that have traveled to the rainforests I love.
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.
Read moreHyphal aggregates
Fungal hyphae making up a network of mycelia.
Hyphae are the building blocks of the fungal realm. Find out what structures hyphal aggregates make up.
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