Mycology 2019

Ecology and mycology

^{Fungal communities in fallen wood as a model system to investigate how the history of fungal community assembly regulates ecosystem Laboratory experiments are being used to determine whether the impacts of assembly history on ecosystem functioning depend upon soil fertility and fungivory. To  determine the relative importance of assembly history against the natural background of environmental variability. This project will provide new ecological insights by showing that historical information, though difficult to obtain in nature, can be essential for explaining seemingly idiosyncratic variation in ecosystem functioning.}