Hanover Science Seminar Series: Andrew Eagar

Missing the fungi for the trees - What “mycorrhizal spillover”
can tell us about current and future temperate hardwood forests
and plant-microbe interactions under global change: Global change is causing shifts in temperate hardwood tree species distributions, which
disrupts beneficial tree-mutualist interactions, such as mycorrhizal associations, and
exacerbates antagonistic interactions between trees and pathogens. However, forest
trees do not grow in isolation - changes in dominant tree species composition can
cascade, or spill over, onto other community members through their shared soil
environment. This phenomenon represents a critical research area for obtaining a
comprehensive understanding of future forest health under global change.