You’d think that in Belgium, a country with a very high population density, not much more biodiversity can be found in addition to...
Category : Biodiversity
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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...
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Long-term fungal inventory in Cusuco National Park, Honduras
The Kingdom Fungi includes a highly diverse group of organisms, in terms of both species richness as well as the ecological roles they...
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New species named after COVID-19
What do three species of fungi, a weevil, a katydid, a shrimp, and a wasp have in common? Nothing, except for their names. All of them...
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A new species of Laboulbeniales finally discovered after millions of years in the waiting
When collaborator Menno Schilthuizen, with whom I published a paper introducing a new species of Diphymyces from Borneo, mentioned...
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The art of taxonomy: how is a new species described?
Taxonomy (the science of naming of species) is of fundamental importance to both biologists and conservationists. Without taxonomy, we...
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Capturing bats to find fungi on flies
IT WAS THE FOURTH NIGHT of fieldwork in the Chucantí Nature Reserve cloud forests in the Darién Province. The expedition at Chucantí...
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New fungal taxa from a Panamanian cloud forest
I realized that it took me about two years to get back online on my website. Oops. The hardest part was then figuring out how to do this,...
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An interesting ladybug larva in Panama
LAST YEAR I WAS IN PANAMA to give a lecture (Introducción a los Laboulbeniales: hongos ectoparásitos estrictos de artrópodos)...