• Biodiversity & Ecology

    • Rapid and Recent Changes in Fungal Fruiting Patterns

      • A. C. Gange, E. G. Gange, T. H. Sparks, L. Boddy,
      • Original article citation: Science 316," (2007).
      • Categories: Biodiversity & Ecology, Regional Climate, and Climate Impacts
      • Recommended by: Olive Heffernan on 06/06/2007 09:20PM GMT
      • Reasons for recommending:
        We have covered this paper as a highlight in NRCC. It's a really nice piece of work for a few reasons. Firstly, the study of 52,000 records of fungi from southern England shows that some fungi have now started to fruit twice a year as a result of climate change and that the fruiting season for fungi in southern England has more than doubled in the last half century. Secondly, the work was done by a father-and-son team of fungal enthusiasts. The father has been avidly spotting mushrooms for the past 50 years. And lastly, they took lots of great images of fungi, which are well worth checking out. Gets my vote!

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