Mycorrhizal fungi help plants thrive, and sequester a lot of carbon. But a new atlas shows these climate warriors need urgent ...

For decades, scientists and conservationists have been using aboveground plant biodiversity as a metric for conserving ...

With the health of fungi so closely tied to the health of their hosts, these findings have implications for the overall health of future boreal forests and for our planet.

Using artificial intelligence, scientists created a map of the planet's mycorrhizal fungi. They hope it will lead to more ...

Look no further than ectomycorrhizal fungi, which are organisms that colonize the roots of many tree species where the boreal ecosystem (zone encompassing Earth's northernmost forests) and the ...

A large study involving 43 research plots in the Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) Network—including a swath of trees at Tyson Research Center, the environmental field station of ...

Two strategies for fungi The two main types of mycorrhizas, ectomycorrhizas and arbuscular mycorrhizas, seem to influence the diversity of tree species in forests in different ways.

image: The smallest islands have not experienced any major disturbances for the past 5,000 years, and organic matter has accumulated unabated leading to humus layers of up to one meter. This image ...

NZ's unusually colorful truffle-like fungi In most ecosystems, truffles are eaten by small mammals, especially rodents and marsupials, which are critical for fungal dispersal and forest health.