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#FungiFriday - Laternea pusilla

January 5, 2018 Philip Pinzone
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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. 

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In Fungi Friday, Evolution Tags Fungi Friday, Costa Rica, Travel, Fungi, Fungus, mushroom, Mycology, Ecology, Biology, Nature, stinkhorn, Laternea pusilla, Laternea, Rainforest, forest, Forest Floor Narrative, FFN

#FungiFriday – The cobalt crust

December 1, 2017 Philip Pinzone
The cobalt crust.  

The cobalt crust.  

This beautiful fungus has properties humans may be able to harness to fight future bacterial infections. 

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In Fungi Friday, Ecology, Evolution Tags Fungi Friday, Forest Floor Narrative, FFN, Ecology, Evolution, Evolutionary processes, Mycology, Biology, Fungi, Fungus, Nature, decomposer, decomposition, cobalt crust, crust fungus, Terana coerulea, Terana caerulea, Carbon Cycle, soil nutrients, antimicrobial, Bacteria, forest floor, forest, Forest

Plant kin recognition and mycorrhizae

September 7, 2017 Philip Pinzone
Stained AMF structures. Procedures I carried out throughout my masters thesis. 

Stained AMF structures. Procedures I carried out throughout my masters thesis. 

New research shows that some plants can recognize if their neighbor is closely related. Because of kin recognition in young plants of common ragweed, closely related neighbors do better by investing more in mycorrhizae. Although mycorrhizae didn't nutritionally benefit these plants, their fungal mutualist offered another type of fitness enhancing reward. 

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In Ecology, Mutualism, Mycology, Evolution Tags Forest Floor Narrative, FFN, forest floor, Forest ecology, forest, plant recognition, recognition, mycorrhizae, Mycology, Biology, Botany, nature, species interactions, mutualism, Ecology, Ecological insights, ecosystems, ecosystem health, species distributions, AMF, research, science, Hyphae, kin, root colonization, Fungi, Fungus, plant interactions, fungal interactions, Mycorrhizal functioning

#FungiFriday Boletinellus merulioides

September 1, 2017 Philip Pinzone
Boletinellus merulioides. Photo by Richard and Danielle Kneal. 

Boletinellus merulioides. Photo by Richard and Danielle Kneal. 

Once thought to be mycorrhizal, find out how this species acquires the sugars it needs to fruit. 

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In Fungi Friday, Evolution, Ecology Tags Fungi Friday, forest floor, Forest Floor Narrative, Forest ecology, forest, Boletinellus merulioides, Boletinellus, B. merulioides, Meliarhizophagus fraxinifolii, aphids, mycology, Biology, nature, Ecology, ecosystem, mushroom, mushrooms, mutualist, mutualism, fungal mutualists, parasite, parasites, plant parasite, Sclerotia, Bolete, evolution, species, species interactions, Species Adaptations, Fungi, Fungal Ecology

Beneath the forest floor in a Costa Rican cloud forest

August 31, 2017 Philip Pinzone
Lactarius indigo found in a cloud forest in Costa Rica. 

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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In Climate Change, Ecology, Mycorrhizae Tags Forest Floor Narrative, forest floor, forest, cloud forest, cloud forests, Costa Rica, Central America, Ecology, Biology, Mycology, species interactions, abiotic, science, mushroom, mushrooms, fungi, fungus, Nature, conservation, Climate change, Lactarius, fungal community, temp, temperature, Science, habitat, biodiversity, diversity, Fungal Ecology, Fungus
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