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Twenty-nine years of warming linked to soil fungi shift in Colorado plots

Long-term ecosystem warming changes not only plants but the fungi in the soil below, according to a new study including researchers from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. "Hidden mycorrhizal fungi below ground are much more vulnerable to warming winters than we expected before," said Associat...

Twenty-nine years of warming linked to soil fungi shift in Colorado plots
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Long-term ecosystem warming changes not only plants but the fungi in the soil below, according to a new study including researchers from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. "Hidden mycorrhizal fungi below ground are much more vulnerable to warming winters than we expected before," said Associate Professor Stephanie Kivlin from UT's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, senior author on a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Originally published at Phys.org

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