Anita Weissflog: Projects

• Plant-soil feedbacks: unearthing the mechanisms of successional tree species turnover in tropical forests ()
  

  Unsustainable use of natural resources is putting tropical forests under tremendous pressure. Secondary forests are becoming evermore-prominent features in tropical landscapes, but we still poorly understand the mechanisms that drive tropical secondary succession, and the importance of plant-fungal interactions is almost completely overlooked. In this project, our goal is to understand the role of soil fungi in driving tree species turnover during secondary succession of tropical forests.

  at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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