A new study provides a crucial baseline: the first global map of where these fungal networks are and how much of them exists.
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Over a three-decade experiment in the Rocky Mountains, fungi and plant life fundamentally changed. The result has consequences for cattle and wildlife.
Symbiosis is so much part of life on Earth that it has shaped the evolution and structure of cells. It’s happening almost everywhere we look, including inside our gut.
New research about underground fungal filaments suggests these networks store a vast amount of carbon. All the more reason to preserve them.
Even in death, a tree helps others live.
Plants communicate with the fungi on their roots, but the effects on the ecosystem of deliberately adding fungi as a fertilizer are unknown — and might be harmful.
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Postdoctoral fellow, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University
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Professor, Biology, University of British Columbia
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
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Professor and ARC Future Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer in Mycorrhizal Ecology, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
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Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma
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Associate Professor of Ecology, University of Tennessee
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Professor in Plant-Soil Processes, University of Sheffield
