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Forest Fungi Ride Out Wildfires by Hiding Inside Plants
Forest Fungi Ride Out Wildfires by Hiding Inside Plants
Researchers uncover the “body-snatching” tactics of fungi that flourish immediately after wildfires.
Forest Fungi Ride Out Wildfires by Hiding Inside Plants
Forest Fungi Ride Out Wildfires by Hiding Inside Plants

Researchers uncover the “body-snatching” tactics of fungi that flourish immediately after wildfires.

Researchers uncover the “body-snatching” tactics of fungi that flourish immediately after wildfires.

soil, ecology

Infographic: Gassy Genes
Ruth Williams | May 31, 2018 | 1 min read

Soil scientists get bacteria to report on what their neighbors are up to.

How Plant-Soil Feedback Affects Ecological Diversity
Ashley P. Taylor | Jan 12, 2017 | 4 min read
Researchers examine how underground microbes and nutrients affect plant populations.
Microbial Awakening
Hayley Dunning | Nov 1, 2012 | 2 min read
Successive awakening of soil microbes drives a huge pulse of CO2 following the first rain after a dry summer.
Down and Dirty
Amy Coombs | Sep 1, 2012 | 4 min read
Diverse plant communities create a disease-fighting "soil genotype."
The Ecology of Fear
Edyta Zielinska | Jun 15, 2012 | 1 min read
Grasshoppers in fear of predation die with less nitrogen in their bodies than unstressed grasshoppers, which can affect soil ecology.
From the Ground Up
Richard D. Bardgett | Aug 1, 2011 | 1 min read
As the planet warms plant growth will likely increase—locking up some of that extra carbon dioxide by converting it into vegetative biomass—but that’s not the whole story. 
The Root of the Problem
Richard D. Bardgett | Aug 1, 2011 | 10+ min read
New research suggests that the flow of carbon through plants to underground ecosystems may be crucial to how the environment responds to climate change.
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