#saprobes — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #saprobes, aggregated by home.social.
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Two new #FreshwaterFungi species in China enhance #biodiversity knowledge https://phys.org/news/2024-02-freshwater-fungi-species-china-biodiversity.html paper: https://mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/115209/
"Freshwater #fungi are highly diverse and frequently reported from submerged wood, #freshwater insects, herbaceous substrates, sediments, leaves, foams, and living plants. Most species are well-known as #saprobes and they play an important role in ecological functioning as decomposers, but also can be #pathogens as well as #symbionts on humans and #plants."