β-(1→3)-D-glucan- and mannan-guided early termination of antifungal therapy in ICU patients: a randomized controlled study.

spp. are frequently encountered in specimens from ICUs. However, most of these detections represent colonization.

Ethical conflicts associated with COVID-19 pandemic, triage and frailty-unexpected positive disease progression in a 90-year-old patient: A case report.

During the COVID 19 pandemic, advanced age, scoring systems, and a shortage of ICU beds were used as cut-offs for ICU admission. This case report describes the epicrisis of an elderly patient who was almost mistakenly not treated in an ICU.

Experimental and observational evidence of negative conspecific density dependence in temperate ectomycorrhizal trees.

Conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD) promotes tree species diversity by reducing recruitment near conspecific adults due to biotic feedbacks from herbivores, pathogens, or competitors. While this process is well-described in tropical forests, tests of temperate tree species range from strong positive to strong negative density dependence. To explain this, several studies have suggested that tree species traits may help predict the strength and direction of density dependence: for example, ectomycorrhizal-associated tree species typically exhibit either positive or weaker negative conspecific density dependence.

Tree biomass allocation differs by mycorrhizal association.

Tree biomass allocation to leaves, roots, and wood affects the residence time of carbon in forests, with potentially dramatic implications for ecosystem carbon storage. However, drivers of tree biomass allocation remain poorly quantified. Using a combination of global data sets, we tested the relative importance of climate, leaf habit, and tree mycorrhizal associations on biomass allocation.