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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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)...
