Mycologos

Peter McCoy was recently interviewed on the In Search of Soil podcast with Diego Footer discussing the many nuances of soil fungi and their critical roles in the sustainment of life on land! Watch the video interview on Youtube, or listen on the go via Spotify, links below.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0w6bJ2voBXdtPm4Y7r3p6p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2bGGbHkrFM

In Search of Soil #7 - Peter McCoy Subscribe and Listen to the audio version of In Search of Soil: iTunes - http://bit.ly/soilpodcast Spotify - http://bit.ly/insearchofsoil In this episode of ...

~Climate Change & Fungi ~

A new study shows that nitrogen deposition, fire suppression, and climate change are shifting the relationships between trees and their mycorrhizal (plant-root-associating) fungi partners, with potential long-term negative impacts on carbon cycling, forest succession and productivity, and overall soil health and dynamism!

You can learn all about the profound importance of fungi in soils, forest health, and climate change – and just what this study truly implies – in our upcoming fungal ecology class, coming in July.

Shifts in dominant tree mycorrhizal associations in response to anthropogenic impacts Plant-fungal symbioses play critical roles in vegetation dynamics and nutrient cycling, modulating the impacts of global changes on ecosystem functioning. Here, we used forest inventory data consisting of more than 3 million trees to develop a spatially resolved “mycorrhizal tree map” of the con...

MYCOLOGOS founder Peter McCoy was featured in this writeup on the current state of mycoremediation. This topic will be covered at length in two of our upcoming courses!

How oyster mushrooms helped clean up after California's wildfires Proponents say it’s a natural, more benign, and potentially cheaper alternative to the "scrape and burn" approach to environmental clean-up.