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Fungi: podcast explores hidden underground networks sustaining ecosystems
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Fungi: podcast explores hidden underground networks sustaining ecosystems
Evolutionary biologist Dr. Toby Kiers discusses her research mapping fungal networks on a remote Pacific atoll.
- Dr. Toby Kiers founded the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks to study fungal systems.
- Kiers received a MacArthur fellowship and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.
- The podcast features Kiers describing her fieldwork mapping fungal networks on Palmyra Atoll.
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