Publications by authors named "Jessica L Rigg"
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- Environmental forces and interactions between organisms help shape ecological communities, but how they affect each other is still not fully understood.
- Researchers studied fungi living inside wood to test theories about these communities because they are easier to sample and can impact the forest's carbon cycle.
- They analyzed fungal DNA from different types of trees to see how wood characteristics influenced these fungi and found that the moisture and carbon levels in wood led to big changes in the types of fungi present.
Plant-soil feedback, the reciprocal relationship between a plant and its associated microbial communities, has been proposed to be an important driver of plant populations and community dynamics. While rarely considered, understanding how plant-soil feedback contributes to plant rarity may have implications for conservation and management of rare species. Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis) is a critically endangered species, of which fewer than 100 trees are known to exist in the wild.
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