Visit any forest, and you're bound to see mushrooms growing alongside trees and other plants, but these fungi play an important part in the health of that ecosystem and its ability to fight climate change.
Colin Averill, an ecologist and lead scientist at ETH Zürich, has been studying the relationship between fungi and forests for 15 years.
"My team and I study how, particularly, which microscopic fungi live on a tree's roots can affect how an entire force works, how fast trees grow, their ability to withstand drought and disease, how much carbon trees can capture and store in tree stems and in soils," Averill said. According to Averill, land-based ecosystems have absorbed about a third of all carbon dioxide emissions that humanity has emitted.
"That initial science became the foundation of new medical therapies that restore a person’s gut microbiology to treat those diseases," he said. According to Averill, DNA sequencing has become more economical during the past five years and has allowed researchers to better map fungal microbiomes that call forests home. That information can then be used in the treatment research.
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