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Woody Roots @woodyroots.bsky.social · 1d

🚨SAVE the DATE🚨 "9th International 🧪 Symposium on 🍁Woody Root Research" 3-5 June 2026, Como, Italy. www.uninsubria.eu/woody-roots-ix ... Sessions: #root #ecology, #mycorrhizal dynamics, #belowground #technologies, #agroforestry applications, & #globalchange, ... SIGNUP for NEWSLETTER: bit.ly/4mXU6Nt

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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 5d

How do tree seedlings respond to multiple climate stressors?🌴

📖Our meta-analysis shows that CO₂ boosts growth, but only if drought isn't present. The combination of CO₂, drought and temperature mainly had additive effects🌳

🔎Read more: buff.ly/agUryqs

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 8d

Great piece by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social on the descent of Sabine Hossenfelder, from science communicator to contrarian outrage-monger www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Sabine Hossenfelder Asks If Science Is Dying. It’s Not.

Physics is dying. It’s mathematical fiction. Science is failing. Most of academic research that your taxes pay for is almost certainly bullshit. I don’t trust scientists. Would you believe me if I tol...

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Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · 7d

This study doesn't seem to strengthen the hypothesis that mycorrhizal fungi helped plants colonize land. There seems to be a lot of uncertainty around this point. However, I'm the first to admit that I'm not trained in these kinds of analyses, so please straighten me out!

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Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · 8d

I'm puzzled by '1/3'. Assuming myc fungi can't select C from fossil fuels but receive C in proportion to magnitude of sources, wouldn't the value be < 2%? Screenshot of my calculations below. Thanks for helping me sort this out.

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Centre SÈVE @centre-seve.bsky.social · 12d

Il est encore temps de s'inscrire aux Journées Centre SÈVE!

‼️Date limite : 6 octobre 2025

🗓️ 20-21 novembre 2025

📍 Hôtel Chéribourg, Orford

✨ Nos conférencier-ères invité-es: Pre Justine Karst @j-karst.bsky.social (@ualberta.bsky.social) et Pr Frank Sainsbury (@griffith.edu.au)

Centre SÈVE @centre-seve.bsky.social · Jul 17

Journées Centre SÈVE : inscriptions ouvertes 🙌

Le Centre SÈVE est heureux d'annoncer l'ouverture des inscriptions pour son congrès annuel, les Journées Centre SÈVE, qui aura lieu les 🗓️ 20-21 novembre 2025 !

Pour plus de détails 👉 event.fourwaves.com/journees-sev...

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International Mycorrhiza Society @mycorrhizaims.bsky.social · 20d

Meet Plenary speakers of @icom2026.bsky.social

Prof. Marc-André Selosse - from Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Paris) - will be opening the session "Moving forward while looking into the past: How the evolutionary history of mycorrhizas informs future adaptation pathways" #ICOM2026

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International Mycorrhiza Society @mycorrhizaims.bsky.social · 20d

Grateful to all IMS members who joined our 1st Annual Meeting! 🙌
We shared key advances from this past year, ICOM info & more.
Huge thanks to our members. For those who could not attend we will share the meeting video. TIP: Check your spam inbox!

#Mycorrhiza #IMS

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Adam Frew @frewecologist.bsky.social · 21d

Most of us use rDNA for community analyses of AM fungi. Intragenomic variation in rDNA of AM fungi can be pretty huge, depending on the region.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The pitfalls of rDNA‐based AMF identification: a comparative analysis of rDNA and protein‐coding genes

Intragenomic polymorphism of rDNA in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) has been largely overlooked in ecological and taxonomic studies, and the reliability of nuclear rDNA regions for species ident.....

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Allison Walker 🇨🇦🌊🍄🔬🧬 @fungaldreamteam.bsky.social · 28d

🍄Working in fungal conservation? Call for papers for our upcoming special issue in Fungal Ecology 'Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions' ! Deadline 31 January 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Fungal Ecology | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Fungal Ecology | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Read the latest articles of Fungal Ecology at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Christopher B. Cameron @invertevo.bsky.social · Sep 8

Please share with your big picture colleagues.
Join us @umontreal.ca as an Assistant Professor of Global Change Biology.
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Careers

The applicant will contribute to strengthening research on global change in the Department of Biological Sciences and will participate in the integration of biology training into the faculty program in Environment and Sustainable Development (ESD).

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Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · Sep 8

2025 Lab group photo. Small but mighty!

Lab group: Justine Karst, Jacob Beauregard, Alexandra Hallin Carlsson, Ferf Brownoff, Kyle Taylor. Missing Liam Easton.

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is well researched. But I bristle at the idea of this as a “scientific standoff.” A hallmark of science is that there are almost always contrary paradigms challenging the dominant one. But you have to know when the weight of evidence is on different planets.

news.mongabay.com/2025/08/old-...

Old forests, new fires, and a scientific standoff over active management

This is the second installment of Mongabay’s coverage of active management tools for forest fires. Read Part 1. Photographs of forests in the western U.S. from the mid-1800s show a starkly different r...

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Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you!

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Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · Aug 29

Can you please post information on another platform, too? (I am not on LinkedIn)—thank you!

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Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · Aug 28

Fun fact: Nicole hand-textured soils from the 80 field sites, and was wrong only once!

Thanks to Sasha Hararuk with NRCan Canadian Forest Service
and my dept colleague Sylvie Quideau for all their help. Thanks ‪@friresearch.bsky.social‬ for funding.

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Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · Aug 28

We found that soil carbon stores in disturbed forests were resistant, and mycorrhizal shifts did not substantially alter long-term soil carbon dynamics. Lots of caveats in Discussion.

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Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · Aug 28

Given the distinct effects EM and AM fungi have on nutrient and C cycling, we thought shifts in mycorrhizal dominance post-disturbance would coincide with changes in soil C. Nicole surveyed soils and vegetation in 80 lodgepole pine-dominated sites; half disturbed 12–16 years ago and half intact.

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Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · Aug 28

Mountain pine beetles have killed many trees in western boreal forests of Canada. In some areas, ectomycorrhizal pine stands have been replaced by arbuscular mycorrhizal vegetation.

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Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · Aug 28

New research led by Nicole Lau, past MSc in my group: ‘Over a decade later, soil C stores are resistant to extensive tree mortality’
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Over a Decade Later, Soil Carbon Stores in Boreal Forests are Resistant to Extensive Tree Mortality - Ecosystems

Mountain pine beetles have caused extensive tree mortality in Canadian boreal forests. In some areas, ectomycorrhizal (EM) pine stands have been replaced by arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) vegetation. Giv...

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CTV News Kitchener @ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social · Aug 27

Canada Post features fungi and lichen in new stamp series - Canada Post has unveiled its new stamp collection Wednesday featuring fungi and lichens found in the country.

Canada Post features fungi and lichen in new stamp series

Canada Post has unveiled its new stamp collection Wednesday featuring fungi and lichens found in the country.

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César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social · Aug 25

Call for symposia at @ICOM2026 is open until 15 October.
The 13 conference of @mycorrhiza_ims #Mycorrhiza will take place in Cairns, Australia, 12-17 July 2026!
@southmycorrhiza @karst_justine @fmartin1954 @1pantunes #soil #fungi

icom2026.org/symposia/

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Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thrilled to announce that the special issue on fungal #conservation that @cfemycolab.bsky.social and I are co-editing for the @britmycolsoc.org.uk c.org.uk journal Fungal Ecology is open for submissions!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · Aug 25

Who canoes/hikes +3000 km to find a bird nest in the Canadian Arctic? Adam Shoalts does. Though I’m sure he was ready to go home, I didn’t want the adventure to end. What an amazing guy. What beautiful and ecologically important landscapes we have.

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Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · Aug 24

Interesting to see how metaphors are used to nudge understanding of a topic in new directions. The language in this article is super-charged with metaphors!

‘Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis’

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis

The partnership between corals and their intracellular algal symbionts has long been a textbook example of mutually beneficial association. In this essay, Mikhail Matz argues for an updated view in wh...

www.cell.com

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