Study Reveals Ancient Flightless Birds Helped Spreading Colorful Native Fungi, Highlights Ecological Balance It is a finding ...

“Ultimately, fungi helped plants move away from being these marginal tiny little things on the water’s edge into large forests and entire ecosystems,” explains Katie Field, an associate ...

AN invisible world of fabulous fungi has been uncovered by Hampshire children in one of the most comprehensive and unexpected finds ever seen by global nature intelligence provider, NatureMetrics.

While dominant bacterial species are distributed across the studied ecosystem, distribution of dominant fungi is often spatially restricted as they are only recovered at some locations.

By releasing nutrients from dead organisms, fungi allow ecosystems to keep going. By Hannah’s calculations, without fungi to decompose plant matter, we would be up to our armpits in a ...

The fungi helped plants evolve to thrive in terrestrial ecosystems through a symbiotic partnership. Today, that symbiotic partnership between plants and fungi is called mycorrhizae. Arbuscular ...

Fungi (including lichen-forming fungi) and bryophytes constitute a major component across most ecosystems on Earth. With a known species diversity of 120 000 fungi and 20 000 of bryophytes, the impact ...

I am especially interested in whether changing communities of mycorrhizal fungi buffer or increase the effects of environmental change. I have recently initiated a study in our new mesocosm facility ...

The natural world is a finely-tuned balance of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components that shape our environments. Various biotic factors directly affect processes like population growth, ...