Scientists in Italy are testing the impact of fire and drought to learn how the changing climate affects underground fungal networks
hen Toby Kiers and a group of fungi experts hiked the Apennine mountains in northern Italy last July, the country was experiencing its. But Kiers, an evolutionary biologist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, saw the dried vegetation and burnt forests of the drought- and fire-stricken areas bordering Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna as a unique learning opportunity.
“What we want to do is track how fungal communities are changing under climate change,” says Kiers. “It will allow us to predict what we need to protect and what we can conserve.”
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