Course description: Algae are the primary producers of aquatic ecosystems. Fungi are the primary decomposers and recyclers of terrestrial ecosystems. Algae were responsible for the oxygenation of ...

other fungi, bacteria, and terrestrial green algae. Fungi colonized land before plants (specifically embryophytes). Scientists found evidence that 720 million years ago fungi lost small tails ...

A recent study finds that algae can store nutrients, potentially allowing them to spread across more of the ice sheet, ...

KUNMING -- A research team has discovered a new lichen genus on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which is known as the "roof of the ...

Instead, they can efficiently take up inorganic nitrogen and are good at storing phosphorus.” If these ice algae are not otherwise decimated, for example by parasitic fungi or a lack of trace elements ...

One of the most common symbiotic relationships is between various species of algae and fungi, or between cyanobacteria ...