This fungal pathogen is a great example of how detrimental invasive species can be. Learn about this species ecology, evolution, and what we are doing to help the bat populations of the eastern United States.
Read moreA fungus that changed American ecosystems forever, the Chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica)
Within just 40 years of the fungus making its way to our continent, nearly four billion American chestnuts were wiped out. You can still encounter a ghost of the forest floors distant past, in the form of shrub-like chestnut trees emerging from intact roots, not killed by the fungus.
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