Jonathan Cazabonne, a PhD student at the University of Quebec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, and I wrote a correspondence about the need for...
Biodiversity Monitoring
The large gap between described and estimated species is referred to as the Linnean shortfall in conservation biology or, specifically...
Why Riaz et al. (2023) should be retracted
A few weeks ago, I stumbled across Riaz et al. (2023), “Symbiotic association between ants and fungus” in the Annals of the...
Rare species hanging out in my front yard
You’d think that in Belgium, a country with a very high population density, not much more biodiversity can be found in addition to...
2021 in numbers
2021 top 10 posts by view: Forensic Mycology: Taking Hebeloma to Court The art of taxonomy: how is a new species described? Genetische...
O Stigmatomyces baeri, where art thou?
I am a mycologist, and one could argue that I am also an entomologist and a mammalogist. I work quite a bit with insects and with bats. I...
[News] International team explores the mysterious and understudied parasitic microfungi
The world around you is teeming with life you can’t see. Plants, soil, water, insects – even your hair and skin – are home to...
Danny back@ugent
Toen ik in 2011 mijn schup afkuiste met het indienen van mijn masterthesis, getiteld “Exploring and testing DNA extraction protocols,...
Our response published in Science!
A few weeks ago, Cao et al. (2021) published a letter in Science, about including macrofungi in the post-2020 global biodiversity...
