Dr. Nanette Raczka

Soil carbon as a blind spot in tropical rainforest restoration Keller et al. discuss the potential effects of active restoration on soil organic carbon storage in the topsoil in tropical rainforests.

Into tropical forest restoration? Check out our new review led by @nadike.bsky.social discussing pathways of SOC gain and loss during active restoration | out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social

Let's get more C back into these soils!

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Our newest special issue is now live! Check it out to discover more about diverse and beautiful Fungi🍄🍄‍🟫🍄 On the cover: the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, releasing its spores in the early morning light. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Drought-induced plant microbiome and metabolic enrichments improve drought resistance Plant-microbiome interactions are crucial in maintaining plant health and productivity under stress; however, little is known about these interactions…

#NatMicroPicks

Microbiome in drought resistance! 🦠🌱

Drought-induced plant microbiome and metabolic enrichments improve drought resistance

#MicroSky

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Aquatic Fungi Diversity 2025 YouTube video by FUNACTION

Did you miss our webinar "Aquatic Fungi Diversity 2025"? You attended but want to see it again and share with your network?🍄💧

The video is now available:
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#aquaticfungi #conservation

Dartmouth Team Launches Public Database on Soil Fungi | Faculty of Arts and Sciences

“…that's the cool thing about basic science: you just don't know what information or knowledge it will generate in the future”

Our new open mycorrhizal fungal trait database is published! Read about our science journey:

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Our latest discovery science on chytrid fungi is just out in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B. Using a range of tools we explore how chitin-degrading specialists are adapted and evolved. @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social 👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A trait spectrum linking nitrogen acquisition and carbon use of ectomycorrhizal fungi Trait spectra have been used in various branches of ecology to explain and predict patterns of species distributions. Several categorical and continuous traits have been proposed as relevant for ecto...

Should we move beyond categorical traits in ectomycorrhizal fungal ecology? Fifth and final publication from my PhD is just out in @newphyt.bsky.social:
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A travelling-wave strategy for plant-fungal trade. An image of a microscopic view of fungi. Nature logo.

Our newest research on plant-fungal trade published today in @nature.com.

The work, led by scientists from Vrije Universiteit, Princeton University, SPUN & AMOLF combines robotics, mycology & biophysics to reveal underground supply-chain dynamics.

Open access:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cliffs are extreme environments home to unique and diverse plants. ⛰️

Felipe Morales Armijo, a SPUN Underground Explorer, is researching how mycorrhizal fungi might help plants grow in these harsh cliff habitats. Learn more about the Underground Explorers Program: https://buff.ly/4iM6lMg

🧡 #AquaticFungi!

Mycorrhiza-dependent drivers of the positive rhizosphere effects on the temperature sensitivity of soil microbial respiration in subtropical forests Xuechao Zhao, Peng Tian, François Maillard, Shengen Liu, Zhaolin Sun, Qingkui Wang, Nadejda A. Soudzilovsksia This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be …

📰Published📰 Mycorrhiza-dependent drivers of the positive rhizosphere effects on the temperature sensitivity of soil microbial respiration in subtropical forests

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Great course and awesome teachers on áll belowground plant organs!

Fungal endophytes help tropical trees defend against natural enemies during early growth stages Bolívar Aponte Rolón, Elizabeth Arnold, Mareli Sánchez Juliá, Sunshine A. Van Bael This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Flowering plant…

📰Published📰 Fungal endophytes help tropical trees defend against natural enemies during early growth stages

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Only 8 days left to apply for our fully-funded 4 years #PhD position in island biogeography for plants!
Work with Prof Rampal Etienne and me at @unigroningen.bsky.social & Macquarie University in #Sydney.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity!

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Plant Species Richness and the Root Economics Space Drive Soil Fungal Communities Soil fungi are critical for plants and ecosystems but are also affected by the vegetation itself. Here, we show how an experimental gradient of plant species richness and community fine root traits d...

What a nice start to 2025! The second chapter of my PhD is now out in Ecology Letters!
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Salt marsh soil organic carbon is regulated by drivers of microbial activity Abstract. Soil organic carbon is the foundation for soil health and a livable climate. Organic carbon is concentrated in coastal wetland soils, but dynamic

Aah, our meta-analysis led by the intrepid Hailey Erb is published in the new @amiposts.bsky.social journal Sustainable Microbiology! Come for the blue carbon and @biorender.bsky.social-fu, stay for the PRISMA method and path analyses 🧪🦠🌎

I have a new PhD opportunity with @juliakoricheva.bsky.social at Royal Holloway University of London on the effect of tree diversity on nutritional and chemical diversity of pollen and nectar resources for bees in the forest understory - deadline 20th January 2025 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...

If you are interested in the behind the paper story of our recent article, here is the link communities.springernature.com/posts/soil-f...

Careers at Cary Opportunities for employment at Cary Institute.

This job sounds super cool - Field Ecology Technician/Lead Field Ecologist in the Forest Futures Lab

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Hi Dan! A friend of mine sent me a post from Twitter about your interest in a collaborative manuscript about blue carbon! I research tropical peat swamp forests in Brunei! Please email me at nanetteraczka@gmail.com if you want to chat!

Effective, efficient, and fair peer reviewing 2023 Effective, efficient, and fair peer reviewing Ben Bond-Lamberty Based on a presentation at the AGU Early Career Scientist Workshop, 2019 1

Scientists are expected to do peer reviewing but no one tells you HOW. After talking with several folks about this today at #AGU24 , it seems a good time to link to this presentation I made several years ago -- feel free to use/share! docs.google.com/presentation...

#rootdevelopment

Congratulations! That’s awesome!

Snowplants. Sarcodes sanguinea. They have no chlorophyll and are parasitic plants that get their nutrients and sugars from the roots of trees via mycorrhizal fungi. They are in the family Ericaceae, the same family as azaleas and blueberries. We found these in the mountains of S California

Rhizosphere as a hotspot for microbial necromass deposition into the soil carbon pool The findings of this study underpin the vital effect of microbial necromass in soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation from the rhizosphere perspective and offer valuable insights into mechanisms unde...

Rhizosphere as a hotspot for microbial necromass deposition into the #soil carbon pool: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Tree.fm allows you to listen to a random forest. This is beautiful.

To start out my feed: beautiful tropical peat swamp pictures 😍