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🍄 Turning biodiversity upside down: Conservation maps miss fungal hotspots by focusing on plants
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-biodiversity-upside-fungal-hotspots-focusing.html

Turning biodiversity upside down: Conservation maps miss fungal hotspots by focusing on plants
For decades, scientists and conservationists have been using aboveground plant biodiversity as a metric for conserving ecosystems. Now, a new study finds that there is a major mismatch between aboveground plant diversity and Earth's underground fungal biodiversity.

Some #Nature photos from last week's trip to scenic Brown County, #Indiana
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