Study finds that plant growth responses to high carbon dioxide depend on symbiotic fungi
Research by an international team of environmental scientists from the United Kingdom, Belgium and United States, including Indiana University, has found that plants that associate with one type of symbiotic fungi grow bigger in response to high levels of carbon dioxide, or CO2, in the atmosphere, but plants that associate with the other major type […]
Science at Work: It’s all about you, the citizen scientist
“Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystems” is the theme of the Ecological Society of America’s annual meeting under way in Portland, Ore., and one thing many of the world’s leading ecologists are making clear here is that the theme may never come to fruition without a little help from their friends. That […]