How a beautifully preserved fossil reveals one of the oldest gilled mushroom forming fungus ever found. www.linnean.org/news/2026/06...

We composited soil cores and lost 49 AM fungal taxa doing it. Sequencing individual subsamples found them. The ones that vanish are rare, patchy, and phylogenetically clustered. Also drying vs freezing made no difference really. Sample at the scale your question lives at. doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

📢Paper out with our own Thom Kuyper🌳European forests show declining nutrient health, and emerging evidence suggests shifting ectomycorrhizal fungi dynamics may be a key, overlooked driver of how forests respond to global environmental change.🌳 academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

New paper out! We studied the effect of mango trees on soil properties and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi communities of cassave and maize in smallholder farms in Southern Ethiopia. While mango trees had a positive effect on soil properties, we found no clear effect on AMF communities in the crops. 🌽🧪

Major fungal genome-based global biogeography study published in New Phytologist by Yi-Hong Ke et al.: the success story of Suillus luteus. doi.org/10.1111/nph....

New paper out! We studied the effect of mango trees on soil properties and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi communities of cassave and maize in smallholder farms in Southern Ethiopia. While mango trees had a positive effect on soil properties, we found no clear effect on AMF communities in the crops. 🌽🧪

In 1881, drawing on her experience as a cook, Fanny Hesse suggested using agar instead of gelatin to culture bacteria: a simple idea that helped shape microbiology today. Happy birthday to a pioneer who deserved far more recognition. 🧫 Illustration by Veronica Pisano

Was Dolly, Ursula von der Leyen's pony, really killed by a #wolf? An external expert panel doubts the evidence and points to a missing post-mortem analysis and other shoddy evidence.

"Fungi-substrate association patterns in boreal forests" by Meirong Chen et al. - our multi-substrate fungal survey out in Fungal Ecology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔥Boreal fungi recover very differently after fire vs. clear-cutting. Fires leave long-lasting deadwood that supports rich and red-listed species; clear-cuts do not. High deadwood + structural complexity are key, but old-growth remains irreplaceable 👉️ buff.ly/DLExOE9

Nice study by my former colleagues at SLU: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... They used data from the Swedish Soil Inventory to study long-term effects of clearcutting on ectomycorrhizal fungi 🧪🌲🍄

New paper out! We looked at the effect of disc-trenching and fertilization during the previous rotation period on carbon and nitrogen stocks and soil fungal communities in two fertilization experiments in Sweden. 🧪🌲 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Preprint alert on the Scandinavian #wolf population and its conservation status. Populations are considered genetically safe if their genetically effective size exceeds 500. That's not a countable number, it reflects how fast the population loses heterozygosity and suffers from inbreeding. 1/ 🦊

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:

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. 1/

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...

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 👇

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.

This week I'm in Skåne, southern Sweden for a week of intensive mushroom-hunting with the Swedish mycological society 🤗🍄

It's a bolete, but with gills 👀 🍄 Phylloporus pelletieri - Golden gilled bolete #FungiFriends

Why is the European forest carbon sink declining? How science can help reversing this trend? A perspective paper in Nature discusses these questions, highlighting the importance to better monitor forest resources and their resilience. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting publication on constraints & opportunities for a transition to alternative forest management strategies in Sweden. Major constraints: conservative traditions & inadequate advisory services Opportunities: increasing interest among forest owners & potential regulatory support from the EU

Lots of intriguing results with this new study by Kranabetter et al. including that ‘Peroxidase activity under an EM host was low and equivalent to an AM host on more productive sites and only diverged with increasingly limited soil fertility’ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New Article Out 📣 Open Access 📣 @newphyt.bsky.social “Fungal guild interactions slow decomposition of boreal forest pine litter and humus” nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper out! 🎉 Even after 3 years in Arctic soil, fungal necromass remains only partly decomposed, suggesting potential for long-term carbon storage, with contrasting stability between fungal and bacterial decomposers.🍄 doi.org/10.1186/s407...

After a few decades post clear cutting, ectomycorrhizal fungal communities are still slowly recovering and certain species are still more likely to be found in the forest rather than on the forest edges or openings.

Really cool study on ectomycorrhizal decomposers, that use manganese peroxidases to degrade organic matter (most likely to mine nitrogen). The authors identify 10 taxa as EcM decomposers (mostly Cortinarius spp.) and look into their niches 👇🧪🌍🍄 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I had a great time at #ESM2025 Thanks to the organizers for the great conference and to all participants for the inspiring discussions and the fun times! 🧪🍄

Nice to see our study covered by @dagensnyheter.bsky.social 👇🧪🌍

We need to think more critically in how we use tree mycorrhizal status to predict forest ecosystem function. Important intra-guild variation among ectomycorrhizal trees leads to differences in soil biogeochemistry and organic matter properties. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The EU has released its latest GHG emission inventory, with data up to 2023. The good news, GHG emissions continue a downward trend, currently 37% below 1990 levels. The bad news, a significant downward revision of land-use removals (LULUCF). 1/

New paper in The Lancet Planetary Health where we show that Nitrogen enrichment not only substantially increases the pollen production of grasslands, but also the pollen allergenicity 🤧.

New paper out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social ! We studied carry-over effects of nitrogen fertilization in Swedish production forests. 🌲🧪🌍 🧵(1/7) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social ! We studied carry-over effects of nitrogen fertilization in Swedish production forests. 🌲🧪🌍 🧵(1/7) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Interesting proposal to classify ectomycorrhizal fungi along a continuum from miners to absorbers. 👇🍄 An inspiring read, so much potential for studies testing this trait spectrum! 🤓 🧪🌍

BREAKING NEWS: the number of #fungi species on the IUCN Red List has surpassed 1000!! 🥳🥳 Today's update confirmed that #deforestation, agricultural expansion and urban development are driving fungi to decline worldwide. It's the top story on the press release — iucn.org/press-releas...