From the tiniest microorganisms to the largest mammals, life on Earth thrives through interconnected, mutually beneficial ...

Although fungi of the genus Piloderma are common, scientists have now discovered five previously unknown species. One of ...

Nilgiris farmers were both food producers and soil depleters. As the former, they were feted. As the latter, they were ...

Recent studies have shown that carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems are increasing, mitigating around 30% of the CO2 ...

It is commonly assumed that as forest ecosystems age, they accumulate and store, or "sequester," more carbon. A new study based at the University of Michigan Biological Station untangled carbon ...

Assessing the function of forest ecosystems requires a deep ... provide valuable insights into the relationship between soil microbial communities, functional genes, and the rate of soil nitrogen ...

The synergistic effects of forest structure, the composition of the tree and fungal communities, and soil biogeochemical processes have more influence on how much carbon is being sequestered above and ...

In this study, the accumulation characteristics, laws, and environmental impact factors of soil PhytOC accumulation in these bamboo forests were elucidated successfully.

The research team from CAS looked at soil fungi and their ... largest experimental subtropical forest of 300,000 trees in plots from 1-32 species to test the relationship between biodiversity ...