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Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi - the result can shift mountain grasslands to scrub — RMBL Knowledge Commons
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Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi - the result can shift mountain grasslands to scrub
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By:
Stephanie Kivlin, Associate Professor of Ecology, University of Tennessee
Date:
February 16, 2026
mycorrhizal fungi
soil microorganisms
Summary
Over a three-decade experiment in the Rocky Mountains, fungi and plant life fundamentally changed.
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