Let’s join the new FunDive sampling season! 🍄This year, we are not only continuing the projects started last year but also launching new ones🍄 ➡️Visit our webpage to learn more fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol... and join our fungal discovery mission!

🍄Have you ever seen truffle-like #Russulales? Some Russula skip the classic mushroom shape (stipe, open cap and gills). Instead, they form enclosed, truffle-like fruitbodies! Join the new #FunDive campaign and help us map them and sequence their genomes fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol... @biodiversa.eu

How do tropical #trees deal with droughts? The answer is published today in @science.org Our pantropical #treering analysis revealed 2.5% growth reduction during #drought years. Yet, growth declined by >10% in 1/4 of 500 study sites, and in hotter & drier regions. doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🌍🍁🌐 (1/4)

Researchers describe two new species of 𝑃ℎ𝑎𝑒𝑜𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑢𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑎 from North China based on morphological and phylogenetic analysis. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/myco...

Excited to share our new @nature.com paper mapping global mycorrhizal richness and rarity, led by Michael Van Nuland. Over 90% of richness hotspots lie outside protected areas: a critical gap in conservation. Proud to contribute as part of the @spun.earth consortium! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One of the sampling campaigns of #FunDive, a 🇪🇺 project promoting fungal conservation, focuses on #Hesperomyces, a parasite on ladybirds – but we need YOU🫵! My PhD student @michieldegroot.bsky.social made a video with everything you want to know. youtu.be/HXfhY00U6M4?... #CitizenScience #TeamLaboul

Our PhD student Aneira Williams participated in the first #FunDive Barcoding Campaign in Warsaw. Together with 17 other participants, she extracted DNA from 216 fungal specimens and prepared 192 samples for Nanopore sequencing! Quite an exciting first week of the PhD! @jzpawlowska.bsky.social

Who lives underground? Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com. Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas. Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵

This week, we marked National Caatinga Day. The Caatinga–a unique and vulnerable biome found only in Brazil, covers 10% of the land. 🇧🇷 Underground Explorer @ariadnefurtado.bsky.social and team are in Brejos de Altitude, studying which fungi aid in local habitat maintenance and regeneration. 🍄

I'm super excited to launch the Underground Explorers grant call for this year! Please consider applying! We are now supporting a broader range of topics including mycorrhizal fungi species discovery and research on threatened mycorrhizal fungi.. take a look 👇

If you want to learn about my work in tropical ectomycorrhizal mushrooms associated with the endangered black oak listen to this fun podcast from Mushroom revival!! 🌳 🍄🍄