Kenji Suetsugu | Deadwood is not dead: a carbon gateway for orchid seedlings on dark forest floors  – Functional Ecologists

In our new post, Kenji Suetsugu, professor at Kobe University (Japan), discusses his research article ‘The nexus of decay and birth: Ecological and evolutionary significance of wood-decaying fungi in green…

Do small trees in the understory of tropical forest gain additional carbon from fungi?  – Functional Ecologists

Franziska Zahn, postdoc at University of Bayreuth (Germany), presents her work “Stable isotope analysis indicates partial mycoheterotrophy in arbuscular mycorrhizal woody seedlings in tropical forests”. She discusses the collaborative network…

A Journey into Symbiotic Mysteries – Functional Ecologists

In our new post Kenji Suetsugu, professor at Kobe University (Japan), presents his work ‘Mycorrhizal specialization toward each distinct Oliveonia fungus in two closely photosynthetic Dactylostalix orchids’. He talks about…