Old-growth trees host a unique suite of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and other root-associated fungal taxa in their canopy soil environment.

Canopy soils occur on tree branches throughout the temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest Coast and are recognized as a defining characteristic of these ecosystems. Certain tree species extend adventitious roots into these canopy soil environments. Yet, research on adventitious root-associated fungi remains limited.

Methodology to calculate forest stand level maximum potential productivity, potential achievable productivity and ecosystem fit.

A modified Loomis-William model was originally developed to estimate the theoretical maximum yields of crops. That model was adapted in this paper to measure how much of the theoretical maximum potential productivity (tNpp) is reached in any forest due to edaphic and climatic limits to growth, i.e.

A rapid approach to profiling diverse fungal communities using the MinION™ nanopore sequencer.

The Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION™ sequencer holds the capability to generate long amplicon reads; however, only a small amount of information is available regarding methodological approaches and the ability to identify a broad diversity of fungal taxa. To assess capabilities, three fungal mock communities were sequenced, each of which had varying ratios of 16 taxa. The data were processed through our selected pipeline.

Indigenous knowledge informing management of tropical forests: the link between rhythms in plant secondary chemistry and lunar cycles.

This research used knowledge of the indigenous practice of timing nontimber forest product harvest with the full moon to demonstrate that chemicals controlling the decomposition rate of foliage fluctuate with the lunar cycle and may have developed as a result of plant-herbivore interactions. Indigenous knowledge suggests that leaves harvested during the full moon are more durable. Palm leaves harvested during the full moon had higher total C, hemicellulose, complex C and lower Ca concentrations.