How fungi’s knack for networking boosts ecological recovery after bushfires
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Frew, Adam, Le Brocque, Andy, Nimmo, Dale, Egidi, Eleonora, Price, Jodi and Greenwood, Leanne. 2020. "How fungi’s knack for networking boosts ecological recovery after bushfires." The Conversation. 20 March 2020, pp. 1-8.
Article Title | How fungi’s knack for networking boosts ecological recovery after bushfires |
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Article Category | Blog |
Authors | Frew, Adam (Author), Le Brocque, Andy (Author), Nimmo, Dale (Author), Egidi, Eleonora (Author), Price, Jodi (Author) and Greenwood, Leanne (Author) |
Publication Title | The Conversation |
Journal Citation | 20 March 2020, pp. 1-8 |
Number of Pages | 8 |
Year | 2020 |
Place of Publication | Parkville, Australia |
Web Address (URL) | https://theconversation.com/how-fungis-knack-for-networking-boosts-ecological-recovery-after-bushfires-132587 |
Abstract | The unprecedented bushfires that struck the east coast of Australia this summer killed an estimated one billion animals across millions of hectares. Scorched landscapes and animal corpses brought into sharp relief what climate-driven changes to wildfire mean for Australia’s plants and animals. Yet the effects of fire go much deeper, quite literally, to a vast and complex underground world that we know stunningly little about, including organisms that might be just as vulnerable to fire, and vital to Australia’s ecological recovery: the fungi. |
Keywords | arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi; bushfires; ecological recovery; Australia |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 410603. Soil biology |
410407. Wildlife and habitat management | |
310703. Microbial ecology | |
Byline Affiliations | University of Southern Queensland |
Charles Sturt University | |
Western Sydney University | |
Open access url | https://theconversation.com/how-fungis-knack-for-networking-boosts-ecological-recovery-after-bushfires-132587 |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
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