Looking belowground can tell us how forest trees will react to environmental changes

New research by Michela Audisio, PhD candidate at Göttingen University, Germany. There is much more to trees than we see aboveground, and their interactions with fungi belowground are vital for their survival. Trees rely on the symbiotic interaction with specialized soil fungi to take up important resources such as nutrients and water. In exchange for …

Why go belowground?

A commentary by F. Curtis Lubbe at the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The belowground lives of plants are very different than those we see above the soil. As aboveground, in the soil plants grow, branch, forage, compete, and have complex multualistic relationships. However, all of these processes are a bit …