#forestecosystems — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #forestecosystems, aggregated by home.social.
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#Trees absorb the #greenhousegas #CO2 and release oxygen, thus contributing to a better #environment. Yet, isolated street trees are more susceptible to disease than those in #forests, which are embedded in complex #forestecosystems with a #treespecies #diversity.
In light of #globalwarming and #anthropogenic #environmentalchanges, R. C. Gatti et al. (2022) estimated the number of tree #speciesonEarth.
© #StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025Ref
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115329119#Photos
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Researchers developed new model calculations that estimate the global influences of lightning on #forestecosystems, showing that 320 million trees die each year due to #lightningstrikes: http://go.tum.de/970492 🌳
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Most plant-friendly fungi are a mystery to scientists
#Fungi #MycorrhizalFungi #SoilHealth #Biodiversity #UndergroundEcology #ForestEcosystems #DarkTaxa #CarbonSequestration #Deforestation #Mushrooms #Ecology #SustainableForestry #SoilFungi #Trees
https://the-14.com/most-plant-friendly-fungi-are-a-mystery-to-scientists/