New fungi species unearthed in Cairngorms mountains
The discoveries included a fungus previously recorded in the Arctic and another in Antarctica. …
Andrea Britton, an ecologist at the James Hutton Institute, added: “Fungi are crucially important to the functioning of our alpine ecosystems, but because they are mostly hidden below ground, and because alpine ecosystems are remote and difficult to access, we know very little about the distribution and diversity of fungi in this iconic habitat.
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