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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · 3d

Back home after an amazing week of surveying mushrooms with the Swedish mycological society. Despite the drought we were able to record almost 1000 species! Quite some collections will be sequenced, a.o. as part of the @fundive-fungi.bsky.social project. 🍄
Some highlights 👇

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, such a pretty species! Is it typically found in grasslands?

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · 3d

The beech forests in Skåne are stunning!

Base of a beech tree growing over some rocks

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · 3d

Hidden among these fruiting bodies of Entoloma placidum stands a Mycena picta, which I only discovered when looking at the picture, didn't notice it in the field 👀 🍄📷

fruiting bodies of Entoloma placidum with blue stipes and greyish caps, next to the base of one of them stands a tiny mushroom, Mycena picta.

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · 3d

I found Amanita olivaceogrisea, which was only the 10th record for Sweden.

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · 3d

Also many cool species of boletes, like this Suillellus mendax (will be sequenced to confirm identity).

A large bolete with red pores and a red stipe on a steep slope in beech forest

underside of a bolete with red pores, staining blue where it is damaged

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · 3d

We found many Cortinarius species. This C. obsoletus was found in two localities this week, record 11 and 12 of this species in Sweden!

Six fruiting bodies of Cortinarius obsoletus, four lying down and four showing the yellow-brown cap colour

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · 3d

Frantisekia mentschulensis, a rare wood decomposer, which we recorded almost every day this week.

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · 3d

Back home after an amazing week of surveying mushrooms with the Swedish mycological society. Despite the drought we were able to record almost 1000 species! Quite some collections will be sequenced, a.o. as part of the @fundive-fungi.bsky.social project. 🍄
Some highlights 👇

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Olivier Honnay @olivierhonnay.bsky.social · 5d

📢 Vacancy: I am urgently recruiting a PhD candidate to join a project on selection processes in pedunculate oak.
📅 Start date: no later than December 1st.

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · 9d

This week I'm in Skåne, southern Sweden for a week of intensive mushroom-hunting with the Swedish mycological society 🤗🍄

Fruiting bodies of porcelain fungus with some mycologists in the background

A dead beech stem with a fruiting body of Frantisekia mentschulensis on it.

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations on defending! 🥳

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · 23d

The number of observations of this species on the Belgian citizen science website waarnemingen.be 👇 It has been expanding northwards for a while now but this year was insane.

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · Aug 8

Meer bepaald roofvliegenvetzakkerij 😅 ik vermoed Gewone roofvlieg - Machinist atricapillus

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · Aug 7

It's a bolete, but with gills 👀 🍄
Phylloporus pelletieri - Golden gilled bolete
#FungiFriends

Picture of mushrooms with reddish brown hats, through the mirror lying next to them you can see their golden yellow gills. The species is Phylloporus pelletieri.

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Giacomo Grassi @giacgrassi.bsky.social · Jul 31

Why is the European forest carbon sink declining?
How science can help reversing this trend?

A perspective paper in Nature discusses these questions, highlighting the importance to better monitor forest resources and their resilience.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Securing the forest carbon sink for the European Union’s climate ambition - Nature

Actionable research recommendations are outlined to improve the monitoring and modelling of forest resources and their carbon sink, and to better inform forest management decisions and the European Gr...

www.nature.com

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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · Jul 30

Interesting publication on constraints & opportunities for a transition to alternative forest management strategies in Sweden.
Major constraints: conservative traditions & inadequate advisory services
Opportunities: increasing interest among forest owners & potential regulatory support from the EU

Unlocking a transition to alternative forest management in intensive management contexts: Stakeholder perceptions of constraints and opportunities in Sweden

Forests are increasingly recognized as providing key nature-based solutions for societal challenges related to climate change, biodiversity loss, and …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · Jul 21

Lots of intriguing results with this new study by Kranabetter et al. including that ‘Peroxidase activity under an EM host was low and equivalent to an AM host on more productive sites and only diverged with increasingly limited soil fertility’

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Diverging soil peroxidase activity under ectomycorrhizal versus arbuscular mycorrhizal conifers with increasing C:N and exchangeable manganese

Ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi purportedly contribute to the enzymatic decay of soil organic matter (SOM), in contrast to arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) stan…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Louis Mielke @myconet.bsky.social · Jun 30

New Article Out 📣 Open Access 📣 @newphyt.bsky.social

“Fungal guild interactions slow decomposition of boreal forest pine litter and humus”

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

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Andrea Moravcová @mushy-andrea.bsky.social · Jun 20

New paper out! 🎉
Even after 3 years in Arctic soil, fungal necromass remains only partly decomposed, suggesting potential for long-term carbon storage, with contrasting stability between fungal and bacterial decomposers.🍄

doi.org/10.1186/s407...

Contrasting stability of fungal and bacterial communities during long-term decomposition of fungal necromass in Arctic tundra - Environmental Microbiome

Decomposition is a crucial process in terrestrial ecosystems, driving nutrient cycling and carbon storage dynamics. Considering the amount of fungal necromass produced in soils annually, its decomposi...

doi.org

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Louis Mielke @myconet.bsky.social · Jun 20

After a few decades post clear cutting, ectomycorrhizal fungal communities are still slowly recovering and certain species are still more likely to be found in the forest rather than on the forest edges or openings.

Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · Jun 19

Forestry trials set up decades ago are key to understanding long term outcomes of management. This study looks at recovery of EcM fungi nearly 30 years (!) post harvest. Nice work👍from a great team.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Ectomycorrhizal fungal community succession and fragmentation across forest edges nearly three decades postharvest

Forest management for wood products involves the conversion of primary forests to younger plantations. This has an immediate impact on biota such as ectomycorrhizal fungi, a diverse symbiotic fungal ...

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · Jun 20

Really cool study on ectomycorrhizal decomposers, that use manganese peroxidases to degrade organic matter (most likely to mine nitrogen). The authors identify 10 taxa as EcM decomposers (mostly Cortinarius spp.) and look into their niches 👇🧪🌍🍄
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Overview figure of the study showing a map of Sweden with sampling locations and a description of the two major parts of the study. The first part consists of using a regional dataset used to assign ectomycorrhizal decomposers and the second part of using a national dataset to determine the niche of ectomycorrhizal decomposers.

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · Jun 19

I had a great time at #ESM2025 Thanks to the organizers for the great conference and to all participants for the inspiring discussions and the fun times! 🧪🍄

Ecology of Soil Microorganisms @esmmicrobes.bsky.social · Jun 17

What an inspiring group of researchers! And they are all here in Helsinki for the soil microorganisms! 🤩
#esm2025 #soils

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · May 28

Ja, vi mätte årsringarna på gran och tall på de äldsta hyggena och beräknade tillväxten utifrån det. Vi trodde att gödsling skulle leda till ökad tillväxt under nästa omloppstid, men fann ingen skillnad mellan hyggen av gödslad och ogödslad skog.

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · May 28

Exakt, det var redan tillräckligt mycket jobb med markkol, kväve, trädens tillväxt och artsammansättning av växter och svampar 😅

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