Angel Ponce (Ell/He/Him)
@angelponce.bsky.social
Trying to understand fungi at @ctforestal.bsky.social 🌳🍄🖤
Ever wondered what a hackathon is? I wrote this to accompany our paper on data- and code- sharing where all the data came from a hackathon... methodsblog.com/2026/04/09/t... Paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The What, Why and How of Hackathons
Post provided by Natalie Cooper, MEE Senior Editor In September 2025 we ran a hackathon to collect data for a paper on data- and code-sharing across the BES journals. After the event, we thought it…
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You can now read our new Forum paper published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social "A fungal perspective: Ecological reinterpretation of short-term temporal variation in airborne eDNA" doi.org/10.1111/2041...
A fungal perspective: Ecological reinterpretation of short‐term temporal variation in airborne eDNA
Airborne environmental DNA (eDNA) is a powerful tool for assessing biodiversity, but its temporal dynamics and applicability to fungi remain poorly understood. Here we discuss how short-term airbo...
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🌲Four new species of wood-decaying #fungi within the genus Resupinatus have been discovered and described from temperate-boreal coniferous forests in Northeast China. ➡️ Find out all about them: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.132.188107 #newtaxa
📢New paper alert📢 My PhD student Jie Xie studied non-target effects of Hesperomyces harmoniae, fungal ectoparasite of the globally invasive Harmonia axyridis. She performed laboratory bioassays with 3 ladybird species and found differential susceptibility. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... #TeamLaboul
New paper! Here we saw how ectomycorrhizal, fungi exhibit a certain degree of functional redundancy, as different species can perform similar ecological roles, while saprotrophic fungi display higher niche complementarity. Hope you like it! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Tot i no haver trobat bolets comestibles al bosc de Poblet, sí hem vist un bon nombre d'espècies sapròfites més petites, especialitzades en degradar pinassa i pinyes. Per tant, aquests fongs podríen reduïr la biomassa combustible en futurs incendis forestals 🍄🪵🌲🔥 www.efmr.cat/blog/2025/11...
Mal any per collir bolets al PNIN de Poblet
https://youtu.be/3G9cgis_CV0 La temporada de bolets arriba al seu punt àlgid i ho fa amb males notícies a la zona del Paratge Natural d'Interès Nacional (PNIN) de Poblet. La falta de pluges a fina...
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I never thought about this... Very interesting model -> Root anatomy governs bi-directional resource transfer in mycorrhizal symbiosis | Nature Communications
Root anatomy governs bi-directional resource transfer in mycorrhizal symbiosis
Plants form mycorrhizal symbioses to enhance nutrient acquisition, yet the biophysical principles governing carbon and nutrient exchange remain unclear. Here, we develop a theory of bi-directional carbon–nutrient transfer that integrates root anatomy, energetic costs, and mycorrhizal positioning. We show that nutrient uptake per unit carbon or energy investment declines with increasing root diameter due to higher carbon demands across thicker cortical tissues. Mycorrhizal fungi mitigate this constraint by enabling more carbon-efficient nutrient uptake, particularly when arbuscules are positioned in inner cortical layers. This spatial optimization minimizes the carbon cost of transporting nutrients to the stele. Our framework reconciles anatomical variation, symbiotic structure, and functional efficiency across root types and mycorrhizal strategies and offers a new lens for understanding the coevolution between roots and mycorrhizal fungi.
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Autumn is always a hard-(field)working season, but these colourful species make it all worth it 🖤
