We're excited to be at #BES2023 with lots of presentations from current and former lab members! Check out talks today by Irene Cordero Matthew L. Meehan Yichen Zhou Patrick Möhl & posters by Emma-Lee Peterson & Peng Huang! #ecology #soil

Nice to get a first glimpse into how land use and plant growth strategy affect drought resistance in study by Irene Cordero Soil Ecology Lab UoM #BES2023

New Nature Communications in the BioFunLab Land management shapes drought responses of dominant soil microbial taxa across grasslands nature.com/articles/s4146… Led by Jocelyn Lavallee Great col w/Tancredi Caruso Prof. Franciska de Vries 🦠🍄🪱🌱🍂🌍 Soil Ecology Lab UoM and many more! IRNAS Sevilla CSIC CSIC Andalucía y Extremadura

How does land management impact #microbial communities & their role in #ecosystem functions under #drought? Check out our findings in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s4146… Led by Jocelyn Lavallee, w/ Mathilde Chomel ManuDelgadoBaquerizo Tancredi Caruso Prof. Franciska de Vries 🦠🍄🪱🌱🍂🌍 Prof David Johnson & more! #soil

*NEW RESEARCH* ‘Elevated CO2 interacts with nutrient inputs to restructure plant communities in phosphorus-limited grasslands’ With Luke England Gareth Phoenix Ben Keane Tori Bassett Jess Davies, Iain Hartley, Simon Smart, Jonathan Leake onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc… 1/16

Absolutely delighted to have joined BES Stirling University of Stirling as Natural Environment Research Council research fellow! 🥳 Exploring climate change impacts on 🏔️ soil 🦠🍄 with great partners Anita Risch, Hagedorn, Frey and annekempel WSL Umweltforschung and Bardgett Soil Ecology Lab UoM. More here: stir.ac.uk/news/2023/july…

How does defoliation impact #belowground communities and their ability to improve #plant resilience to #drought? New paper led by Tianyang Xu reveals that defoliation can suppress beneficial mycorrhizal fungi-plant interactions under drought! Read it here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Check out this podcast conversation between former lab member & continuing collaborator Arthur Broadbent & current PhD student Kaydee Barker (she/ella) for some talk about #plants, #soil, & #climatechange in the mountains! livablefuturepodcast.com/2024/03/05/alp… #Livablefuture #podcast #MountainLife

Thrilled to share our latest @Biofunlab article, just published in PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Deforestation impacts soil biodiversity & ecosystem services worldwide CSIC IRNAS Sevilla CSIC Andalucía y Extremadura

📢 RESEARCH 🚨hot off the press Global Change Biology : Climate change disrupts the seasonal coupling of plant and soil microbial nutrient cycling in an alpine ecosystem 🍄🦠🏔️🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Massive team effort Soil Ecology Lab UoM Functional Ecology: UIBK Research Group UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology COMI | HMGU 🥳🍻

Important paper led by Arthur Broadbent Soil Ecology Lab UoM showing that snow removal and shrub encroachment, both consequences of rapid climate change in mountain ecosystems, cause a mismatch between plant and microbial N cycling processes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New paper out led by Katie Journeaux reveals a potential #climatechange feedback mechanism where wood decomposing #fungi do not show compensatory thermal responses, allowing for increased #carbon respiration under #warming

jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?… Come and work with Dr Filipa Cox and join our lab group. Here is yet another awesome opportunity to look into the ecology of plant-fungal interactions.

|| OUT NOW || Climate change disrupts the seasonal coupling of plant and soil microbial nutrient cycling in an alpine ecosystem 📃 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Arthur Broadbent Soil Ecology Lab UoM BES Stirling Functional Ecology: UIBK Research Group

📢 Announcing our latest SPECIAL ISSUE! Mycorrhizal research now: from the micro- to the macro-scale 📚 ow.ly/9PjG50RnNWi 🍄 The #mycorrhizal symbiosis: research frontiers 🍄 Microbe-dependent and independent nutrient acquisition 🍄 The #hyphosphere core #microbiome

Photosynthate transfer from an autotrophic orchid to conspecific heterotrophic protocorms through a common mycorrhizal network 📖 ow.ly/tfLE50RNgAh by Read et al. @katiefield4 Emily Magkourilou Prof David Johnson Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil Soil Ecology Lab UoM

New research led by Tianyang Xu used 13C #isotope labelling to investigate how defoliation & #drought impact #carbon allocation to AM #fungi in #grasslands. Both reduced plant 13C uptake, but differed in belowground allocation effects #soil #ecosystems link.springer.com/article/10.100…