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Mushrooms create their own air currents

November 29, 2019 Philip Pinzone
Oyster mushrooms can manipulate their own microclimate. Photo by Zachary Cava.

Oyster mushrooms can manipulate their own microclimate. Photo by Zachary Cava.

By releasing more water than transpiring plants, many fungi can change the density of air surrounding their fruitbodies ultimately resulting in more efficient spore dispersal.

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In Evolution, Ecology Tags Forest floor, FFN, spores, spore, mushroom, mushrooms, biology, ecology, Nature, Mycology, science, Wate relations, gills, Oyster mushrooms, air current, microhabitat, Ganoderma, Lentinula edodes, Pleurotus ostreatus, Agaricus californicus

Fungal spore dispersal trade-offs

October 16, 2017 Philip Pinzone
Thick-walled spores of Phellinus pomaceus. 

Thick-walled spores of Phellinus pomaceus. 

Learn about the different ecological trade-offs associated with different spore morphology. 

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In Dispersal, Ecology Tags Forest Floor Narrative, FFN, fungi, mycology, Biology, nature, dispersal, spore, spores, fungal spores, fungal dispersal, Ecology, mushrooms, trade-offs, trade-off, science, research, forests

Mushrooms make it rain, literally

August 29, 2017 Philip Pinzone
Spore forming mushroom gills

Spore forming mushroom gills

Other than the passing of genetic information to subsequent generations, recent research has revealed yet another ecological function fungal spores may provide- the formation of raindrops!

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In Ecology, Dispersal, Precipitation Tags FFN, Forest Floor Narrative, Forest floor, precipitation, rain, condensation, ecology, Biology, physiology, Mycology, rainfall, rain formation, Climate change, Mushrooms, Mushroom, Fungi, Fungus, Buller, Buller’s droplet, Earth’s atmosphere, Nature, basidium, fungal spores, spore, spores, basidiomycete fungi, basidiomycete, microscopy, science, research, hiller appendix, adaxial surface

Mushrooms create their own air currents

June 15, 2017 Philip Pinzone
Oyster mushrooms can manipulate their own microclimate. Photo by Zachary Cava.

Oyster mushrooms can manipulate their own microclimate. Photo by Zachary Cava.

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In Evolution, Ecology Tags Forest floor, FFN, spores, spore, mushroom, mushrooms, biology, ecology, Nature, Mycology, science, Wate relations, gills, Oyster mushrooms, air current, microhabitat, Ganoderma, Lentinula edodes, Pleurotus ostreatus, Agaricus californicus

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