Mycelial networks doing their "carbon" magic in soils!
Disperal ecology meets fungi!
It is more than just spores people!
Check this paper led by ECR @sarahcuprewich.bsky.social and Kristin Barbour! Fun collab supported @cu-esiil.bsky.social
One hundred unanswered questions on the dispersal ecology of fungi url: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
How #fungi sense and respond to light.
Primer in our current issue👇
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Fungal spores reveal a global climate footprint on microbes' traits!
Incorporating microbial traits improves predictions of biogeographic shifts.
Fun project w @balachaudhary.bsky.social @smriti-pehim-limbu.bsky.social @sturmer.bsky.social @aguilart.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Excited to share that I am taking on a new role as Editor in Chief of npj Soil Ecology, a new journal dedicated to communicating high-quality research and scholarship exploring all aspects of the ecology of soils from gene to ecosystem scales.
www.nature.com/npjsoilecol/
Filamentous growth everywhere! It is really fascinating that no matter if you are the fungus that grows as a "mold" in bread or on decomposing wood, in very unrelated lineages; the trademark is filamentous network growth!
Excited to share our new paper! (1/4)
Fungi grow as networks, but how much these networks actually vary?
Turns out: not as much as we think.
Across four species, network traits stayed consistent, even when grazed by soil fauna!
doing.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70281
Measuring physical properties of fungal network has never been easier and with that, an opportunity to re-define fungal functional diversity. Check our contribution on this issue for AMF: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
As always, a fun collab with @frewecologist.bsky.social
Boreal forest soils are major carbon reservoirs. But how does soil biodiversity shape the fate of this carbon?
Thanks to the Finnish Cultural Foundation, @sanslan.bsky.social and I will untangle how soil fauna–fungi interactions influence carbon pools in Finland.
#skr2026
skr.fi/en/news/trac...
Access the full paper and data here! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Carlos Aguilar-Trigueros
Carlos Aguilar-Trigueros
Carlos Aguilar-Trigueros
Current Biology
Carlos Aguilar-Trigueros
Abstract. Fungi comprise millions of species that play numerous varied roles in Earth’s natural and managed ecosystems, engaging in a multitude of positive
Using image analysis to track the development of fungal networks in the presence of predators, we found that even in modular organisms, plasticity is more nuanced and limited than previously assumed....
Soil health and sustainable land management are critical to addressing global challenges such as food security, climate resilience, and biodiversity loss. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form under...
