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#decomposer — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #decomposer, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Fungal #evolution: Mycena can now invade living hosts phys.org/news/2023-10-fungal-e

    #Mycena species can be opportunist-generalist plant root invaders ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wil

    "this genus of #fungi, which has traditionally been considered #saprotrophic—i.e., a #decomposer of nonliving organic matter—is in the midst of an evolutionary leap... some of these bonnet #mushrooms species even show early signs of being able to act as #mutualists—i.e., live in #symbiosis with #trees"

  2. In #BEF_China, he studies whether the diversity of trees affects the decomposition of animal #carcasses and #decomposer diversity. Not nice for the 👃 and potentially 🤢🤮 But don't worry, we show only nice photos here 😉 @multitroph