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Illuminating the hidden kingdom of the truffle
"With the help of a well-experienced ‘truffle dog’ called Lucy and the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, researchers from Cambridge’s Department of Geography have begun a ‘natural’ experiment to study the seasonal changes and productivity of the Burgundy truffle. ... "We really don’t know much about the life of a truffle,” ...
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A Song of Ice and Fire – Events in Iceland explain years of famine in Europe’s Dark Ages
Tree rings used to pinpoint eruption of Icelandic volcano to half a century before human settlement An international group of researchers has dated a large volcanic eruption in Iceland to within a few months. The eruption, which is the oldest volcanic eruption to be precisely dated at high northern ...
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Socio-economic, scientific, and political benefits of mycotourism
Societies are particularly vulnerable if long-term negative effects of climate change coincide with the impacts of extended economic crises. The widespread rural areas of the Iberian Peninsula, for instance, not only suffer from an exceptionally high rate of recent unemployment, but also experience severe summer drying since around the ...
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Interdisciplinary tree-ring research in the Republic of Tuva (18 July to 02 August 2017)
Together with a team of Russian archaeologists and ecologists from Karsnoyarsk, Ulf Büntgen (Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis) was conducting fieldwork in the remote Republic of Tuva at the border between southern Siberia and northern Mongolia. During their two-week expedition, the interdisciplinary team was mainly searching for living ...
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Third Swiss-Russian-German Dendroecology Expedition to Northeastern Siberia, July 15-31, 2016
Together with my Russian colleagues Alexander V. Kirdyanov (V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Akademgorodok and Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk) and Anatoly N. Nikolaev (North-Eastern Federal University and Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Yakutsk), as well as my PhD student Freddy Reinig (WSL), I organized our third expedition to north-eastern Siberia. Between ...
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