Tag Archives: fungi
EcolChange seminar – Tanel Vahter about fungal diversity in cropfields
Seminars of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Tanel Vahter is a PhD student in the Plant Ecology group in our Department, Tartu University. His research focuses on the application of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for vegetation restoration … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar – Eveli Otsing about the richness patterns of trees and fungi
Seminars of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Eveli Otsing is a PhD student in our Department in the Ecology of Biological Interactions workgroup. Her research aims to shed more light onto the connections between trees (i.e. … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar – Colin Averill about forest fungi and the future of the Earth
Seminars of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Dr. Colin Averill is a Senior Scientist at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, where he studies how the soil microbiome affects forest carbon sequestration and forest community ecology. Title of the … Continue reading
New publication – Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community composition determines the competitive response of two grassland forbs
Anyone can name at least a couple of factors affecting plant growth, be it climate (drought, flooding, hail) or the presence of organisms feeding on plants (birds, insects, mammals, or plant diseases). Some might even think of the nutrients found … Continue reading
New publication – Fungal diversity regulates plant-soil feedbacks in temperate grassland
Text and pic by John Davison and Marina Semchenko Ecologists have long suspected that one key to explaining plant diversity lies with their enemies, including pathogenic soil microbes. Plant–soil feedback describes a process whereby plants shape the microbial communities living … Continue reading
New publication – Didymocyrtis trassii sp. nov. and other lichenicolous fungi on Cetraria aculeata
Text by Lauri Laanisto Time for another taxonomy paper about fungi. (The previous blogpost about that can be found from here.) This time about new species that grow on lichens, specifically Cetraria aculeata. Genus Cetraria is called cuckoo´s ear in … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar – Inga Jüriado about lichen symbiosis
Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Inga Jüriado is senior researcher in the team of lichenology at the Department of Botany. Title of the talk: Relationships between mycobiont identity, photobiont specificity and ecological preferences in the … Continue reading
New publications – two papers about new species of fungi
Text by Lauri Laanisto The scope of our Centre of Excellence is indeed wide, stretching occasionally to systematics and taxonomy. Here are two rather fresh papers about new species of fungi (though, with fungi things are usually not too fresh…) … Continue reading
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New publication – How do arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi travel
Text by Guillermo Bueno Two of the members of the department of Botany (C. Guillermo Bueno and Mari Moora) were invited to write a commentary on a recently published paper in New Phytologist (Correia et al 2019). The paper commented … Continue reading →