Disperal ecology meets fungi!
It is more than just spores people!
Check this paper led by ECR @sarahcuprewich.bsky.social and Kristin Barbour! Fun collab supported @cu-esiil.bsky.social
One hundred unanswered questions on the dispersal ecology of fungi url: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
🐝✨ A #NBSComic has just landed!
At Sweet-Spot, flower strips are blooming and pollinators buzzing. Reports say the ecosystem is thriving… but is it really?
To Bee or Not to Bee explores the promise — and pitfalls — of NbS like flower strips.
📖 nbscomics.com/2026/02/17/t...
#NetworkNature
I am really excited to share our new paper, published today in Nature. We show that rising atmospheric CO2 is linked to decling nutrient availability in boreal forest, with implications for the future carbon sink. Kudos to lead author @kelleyrbassett.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
48th New Phytologist Symposium:
Explore plant interactions in forest environments at all levels from micro- to macro-scales and across the whole spectrum of plant biology.
13 October 2026 - 16 October 2026
Leysin, Switzerland
www.newphytologist.org/events/48-np...
Nature isn’t a commodity that was created to serve humankind, it’s just there, and we’re around to admire its diversity and intricacies, and not screw it up. 3/3
Old, big spruce logs are important habitats for a variety of fungal species. One of the most abundant one in old growth forests is Phellinus nigrolimitatus (NO svartsonekjuke). Here are two big lads from Ringsakerfjellet:
Categorisation of dispersal pathways according to the Convention of Biological Diversity (A) based on on Hulme (2009) and CBD (2014) to illustrate the distinction between key anthropogenic pathways through which non-native species are introduced and dispersed (B) and how non-native species spread naturally (C) beyond their native ranges. Example human-mediated pathways shown include international trade and travel (i), artificial waterways (ii), angling and recreational equipment (iii), railroads and roads (iv), horticulture, landscaping, and soil trade (v), and the pet trade (vi, including intentional releases).
New year, New paper in Biological Reviews: on the Spread of non-native species @ebdonana.bsky.social @sibecol.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A great (pre-)christmas gift: our synthesis paper in Ecology Letters just got published! 😊
Thanks, @elsa-abs.bsky.social, @arjunchakrawal.bsky.social, @lucianachr.bsky.social, Pierre Quévreux, and @manzonilab.bsky.social for the great collaboration!!
Open access article: doi.org/10.1111/ele.70278
"After maturity, forests continue to sequester carbon but more slowly, with increasing storage in deadwood and soil"
Obviously...
But, I find this discussion on old growth harvests a little weird.
"Maturity" is defined as the point of maximum growth, when harvesters want to harvest.
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What a nice visualization of how species hypotheses (based on environmental sequences) relate to phylogenetic species!
Also a nice example of a study that uses metabarcoding data from online databases to improve our ecological understanding of fungi. 🍄🧪
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Every biologist knows the story of Fleming's chance discovery of penicillin. But is it true?
Here, with @asimovpress.bsky.social, I write about inconsistencies in the canonical story, and explore a few alternative theories about what really happened in that St. Mary's lab in the summer of 1928.
"A growing body of evidence that the ‘Gadgil effect’ is not universal, even in the N‐poor litter of temperate pine forests where it was first described"
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
The pinkish flowers of Betonica officinalis on a græsland with some Buxus sempervirens in the background
The light purplish flower of Knautia arvensis
Small pinkish flowers of Asperula synanchica growing over a pale gray calcareous rock
Yellow flower of Pilosella officinarum
We're halfway November but there were plenty of flowers on this calcareous grassland 👀🌸 I guess the extreme drought this summer and spring messed with the plant's phenology... 🌍
What a title!
Remote sensing of lichens with drones for detecting dinosaur bones
Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Old cemetaries can be hotspots for grassland fungi 🍄 Last week I found Hygrocybe cantharellus, Hygrocybe phaeococcinea, Cuphophyllus flavipes s.l. and more on a World War I cemetary in southern Belgium. #FungiFriday #FungiFriends
Quote: "It is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Back home after an amazing week of surveying mushrooms with the Swedish mycological society. Despite the drought we were able to record almost 1000 species! Quite some collections will be sequenced, a.o. as part of the @fundive-fungi.bsky.social project. 🍄
Some highlights 👇
Wow, such a pretty species! Is it typically found in grasslands?
Base of a beech tree growing over some rocks
The beech forests in Skåne are stunning!
fruiting bodies of Entoloma placidum with blue stipes and greyish caps, next to the base of one of them stands a tiny mushroom, Mycena picta.
Hidden among these fruiting bodies of Entoloma placidum stands a Mycena picta, which I only discovered when looking at the picture, didn't notice it in the field 👀 🍄📷
I found Amanita olivaceogrisea, which was only the 10th record for Sweden.
A large bolete with red pores and a red stipe on a steep slope in beech forest
underside of a bolete with red pores, staining blue where it is damaged
Also many cool species of boletes, like this Suillellus mendax (will be sequenced to confirm identity).
Six fruiting bodies of Cortinarius obsoletus, four lying down and four showing the yellow-brown cap colour
We found many Cortinarius species. This C. obsoletus was found in two localities this week, record 11 and 12 of this species in Sweden!
Frantisekia mentschulensis, a rare wood decomposer, which we recorded almost every day this week.
Back home after an amazing week of surveying mushrooms with the Swedish mycological society. Despite the drought we were able to record almost 1000 species! Quite some collections will be sequenced, a.o. as part of the @fundive-fungi.bsky.social project. 🍄
Some highlights 👇
📢 Vacancy: I am urgently recruiting a PhD candidate to join a project on selection processes in pedunculate oak.
📅 Start date: no later than December 1st.
Fruiting bodies of porcelain fungus with some mycologists in the background
A dead beech stem with a fruiting body of Frantisekia mentschulensis on it.
Cantharellus friesii
This week I'm in Skåne, southern Sweden for a week of intensive mushroom-hunting with the Swedish mycological society 🤗🍄
Congratulations on defending! 🥳
The number of observations of this species on the Belgian citizen science website waarnemingen.be 👇 It has been expanding northwards for a while now but this year was insane.
Meer bepaald roofvliegenvetzakkerij 😅 ik vermoed Gewone roofvlieg - Machinist atricapillus
