Albert Morera

Enhorabuena Sara!

I am very interested in the application of AI-based methods in ecology and believe that it still has a long way to go. I think this special feature covers some key points in ecological inference from different perspectives, which I hope will stimulate the development of this field

Russula (red cap) forming ectomycorrhizal relationships while Galerina and Mycena species (orange and pale yellow caps, respectively) decompose a wide variety of substrates.

New paper!
Here we saw how ectomycorrhizal, fungi exhibit a certain degree of functional redundancy, as different species can perform similar ecological roles, while saprotrophic fungi display higher niche complementarity. Hope you like it!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚀 We’re excited to announce the launch of ForestDrought, the new app from the Catalan Forest Laboratory!
With ForestDrought, you can visualize and download daily estimates of water balance for mainland Spain.
Check it out !
laboratoriforestal.creaf.cat/forestdrough...

Very interesting talk by Otso Ovaskainen on the use of JSDM & HMSC for integrating community ecology data with env. variables, species traits, phylogenetic relationships in the spatiotemporal context, for community assembly processes

Missed it? check @mostfun.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@MoSTFun_EU

The soil in the reserve is unusually calcareous and therefore provides a valuable environment for rare plants and animals. Old and fallen trees host a wide range of fungi, lichens, and insects that find it difficult to survive in modern production forests

This Amanita muscaria fruits and grows in symbiosis with this small pine and with very little soil.

The mycelium of this Hydnellum forms a continuous tissue that makes it possible to identify the size of the individual, and if you step on it during the dry season, it can even change the sound of your footsteps

Fantastic mycological excursion 🍄🌲 by @mycopat.bsky.social in an old-growth forests of the Lindsjön Nature Reserve, guided by Anders Dahlberg and with the wonderful collaboration of Alison Pouliot.

📸BTW, don’t miss her stunning fungal photography (and other) at alisonpouliot.com/fungal-realm/

Sampling on late growing season for FUN-URB Proj @wslresearch.bsky.social completed. With autumn arriving in Uppsala, the city’s trees and leaves look very different.

How does urbanisation shape diversity and function of microbial communities on their leaves?

I have played Fungi by pegasus spiele and it is very fun. I recommend it 🍄🍄

Just realized how many fossils cover the floors at Arlanda Airport

The Öland limestone from the Ordovician and contain plenty of straight-shelled nautiloids. Not an expert, Orthoceras?

If you're passing through, don't miss it. They're hard to miss once you notice them

Hackathon @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social completed 🧑‍💻 Amazing to share with so many people in such a unique environment

We’ve been testing whether published data/code are truly reproducible. +1200 papers reviewed. Now waiting for the results 👀 and hoping it helps move towards a more open science

"Ou de reig" in catalan (egg of the king)

Hi Danny, can I be added to the Mycologist Starter Pack?

First autumn in Sweden 🍂 and I’m really enjoying the forest and the wide variety of mushroom (“svamp” in Swedish) species it hosts this time of year 🍄

It was a very interesting webinar explaining how they use individual-based models to simulate these population dynamics. Thank you to Dr. Rémi Fay and the organizers

See you in London!

Mechanisms that potentially contribute to the maintenance of interactions between bacteria, ectomycorrhizal fungi (EcMF), and land trees across varied developmental periods.

“…when organisms interact can largely determine how they interact.”

#Viewpoint: Is it all about timing? Identifying the symbiosis critical points that govern interactions among #bacteria, ectomycorrhizal #fungi, and land #trees

By Louis Berrios 👇

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It has been an incredible few days, sharing science, having fun together and enjoying a lot of activities 🚣‍♀️🍻🎯🍄😶‍🌫️🎉 I have recently landed in this department and I can't be happier with such a great team. tack

Empieza el #9CFE y desde el @ctforestal.bsky.social @udl.cat estaremos compartiendo nuestros últimos hallazgos en temas de diversidad y productividad de hongos 🍄🌲

Having fun with the FUN-URB proj, riding around Uppsala looking for native and non-native trees to examine the diversity patterns of foliar endophytic fungi on trees along urbanization gradients across Europe @wslresearch.bsky.social @mycopat.bsky.social

Project info: www.wsl.ch/en/projects/...

Powerful yet challenging: mechanistic niche models for predicting invasive species potential distribution under climate change Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche chang...

🚨New review out in @ecography.bsky.social!
🔥Mechanistic niche models (MNMs) are the future—but they’re not plug-and-play.
Our paper lays out how and when to use MNMs to predict invasive species distributions under climate change.
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This afternoon we will be presenting our poster on spatio-temporal trends of airborne pathogenic spores in Sweden at #efpp2025

10 years of continuous sampling will allow us to see how the presence of airborne pathogenic spores is related to climate change and what trends we can expect in the future

Figure based on keywords found by AI in the titles of the plenary and concurrent sessions, and the posters detailed in the program

Here’s the menu for the 14th Conference of the European Foundation for Plant Pathology 🌿 #EFPP2025 #Uppsala

From @mycopat.bsky.social we’ll be there bringing a few things to the table!📋😀

Threats from fungal diseases that attack pine and spruce are growing with climate change. But why are some trees more severely affected than others? Matilda Stein Åslund has investigated this in her thesis to help preserve our forests in the ongoing climate change.
www.slu.se/en/ew-news/2...

very test version...

Was there a package to do so?

GitHub - AlbertMorera/smhimeteo: Access to Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) historical information Access to Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) historical information - AlbertMorera/smhimeteo

Need Swedish weather data? 🌦☀☁🌨 In the 𝒔𝒎𝒉𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒐 package, I’ve implemented an easy way to access the #SMHI data.

📦Package rep: github.com/AlbertMorera...

#meteo #Sweden #RStats

GitHub - AlbertMorera/fungitax: The fungitax package provides functions to update scientific names of fungi based on the data available from Index Fungorum. It allows users to get the most current nam... The fungitax package provides functions to update scientific names of fungi based on the data available from Index Fungorum. It allows users to get the most current name of a fungus species by quer...

I have just released 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘅 🍄 an R package to automatically update fungal species names using Index Fungorum.
Useful for anyone working with fungal taxonomy data.

Repo: github.com/AlbertMorera...

Happy to receive feedback #Bioinformatics #rstats

This week is the time to change the spore traps in SLU Grimsö forskningstation located >250km north of Tönnersjöheden in Sweden. Grimsö is close to the border of the subartic climate, allowing the study of differences in fungal communities across a broad climatic gradient

Last week I had the opportunity to visit the SLU Tönnersjöhedens försökspark in south-Sweden and the spore traps I've started working with at @mycopat.bsky.social These traps have been active for more than 10 years and have been sampled weekly, resulting in an exceptional airborne spore db