Mark A. Anthony
@anthomycota.bsky.social
Ecologist into fungi, forests, and global change. Assistant professor at University of Vienna 🇦🇹 Also into 🏋️♂️🏃♂️🌈🏄🌋👾
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Coming to the @egu.eu General Assembly in 2026? Consider submitting an abstract to our mycorrhizae session if you are working on these organisms and their linkages to ecosystem functioning. Last year, this new session was a huge hit, so let's make year two even better!
"A growing body of evidence that the ‘Gadgil effect’ is not universal, even in the N‐poor litter of temperate pine forests where it was first described"
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More exceptions than rules: Variable effects of ectomycorrhizal fungi on leaf litter decomposition in temperate pine forests
The results add to a growing body of evidence that the ‘Gadgil effect’ is not universal, even in the N-poor litter of temperate pine forests where it was first described and is often invoked. Further...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM
"A growing body of evidence that the ‘Gadgil effect’ is not universal, even in the N‐poor litter of temperate pine forests where it was first described"
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Very cool looking paper on bacterial AND fungal necromass contributions to SOC
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November 11, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Very cool looking paper on bacterial AND fungal necromass contributions to SOC
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Coming to the @egu.eu General Assembly in 2026? Consider submitting an abstract to our mycorrhizae session if you are working on these organisms and their linkages to ecosystem functioning. Last year, this new session was a huge hit, so let's make year two even better!
November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Coming to the @egu.eu General Assembly in 2026? Consider submitting an abstract to our mycorrhizae session if you are working on these organisms and their linkages to ecosystem functioning. Last year, this new session was a huge hit, so let's make year two even better!
This week as part of the @pilzfestspiele.at - our group showed mycorrhizal fungal colonized roots, our culture collection, posters of results, and we had a massive turnout! People are becoming increasingly interested in fungi @cemess.bsky.social @ter-cemess.bsky.social
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October 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This week as part of the @pilzfestspiele.at - our group showed mycorrhizal fungal colonized roots, our culture collection, posters of results, and we had a massive turnout! People are becoming increasingly interested in fungi @cemess.bsky.social @ter-cemess.bsky.social
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Thrilled to announce that the special issue on fungal #conservation that @cfemycolab.bsky.social and I are co-editing for the @britmycolsoc.org.uk c.org.uk journal Fungal Ecology is open for submissions!
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August 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Thrilled to announce that the special issue on fungal #conservation that @cfemycolab.bsky.social and I are co-editing for the @britmycolsoc.org.uk c.org.uk journal Fungal Ecology is open for submissions!
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Very interesting paper on fungal [necromass] traits and soil organic matter priming
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Necromass of Diverse Root‐Associated Fungi Suppresses Decomposition of Native Soil Carbon via Impacts of Their Traits
We investigated the decomposition of diverse root-associated fungi, their influence on native soil carbon (C) dynamics and the relationship of these processes with fungal traits. Fungal melanin, blac....
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September 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Very interesting paper on fungal [necromass] traits and soil organic matter priming
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See our new study examining how P additions in tropical rainforests affect tree growth and feedback to AMF and EMF communities. Very interesting links to EMF biomass production strategies. Great work led by Qingshui Yu 🍄🟫🍄
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Decadal nutrient addition reveals phosphorus limitation and its adaptive mechanisms in tropical rainforests
Tropical rainforests on low-phosphorus soils are highly biodiverse and productive, playing a crucial role in climate change mitigation. However, the d…
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September 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
See our new study examining how P additions in tropical rainforests affect tree growth and feedback to AMF and EMF communities. Very interesting links to EMF biomass production strategies. Great work led by Qingshui Yu 🍄🟫🍄
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Come be my colleague in Vienna!
One week to go! Apply by Sept 17 for the Full Professor position in Soil Ecosystems and Global Change at #CeMESS at the University of Vienna.
More info: 🔗 ter.univie.ac.at/news-talks/n...
@univie.ac.at #SoilEcosystems #WeAreHiring
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@univie.ac.at #SoilEcosystems #WeAreHiring
We are hiring: Full Professor of Soil Ecosystems and Global Change
Soil ecosystems form the foundation of planetary health and play a critical role in climate feedback mechanisms. However, they are also vulnerable to the impacts of global change.
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September 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Come be my colleague in Vienna!
A fun commentary with @christinakaiser.bsky.social inspired by a very cool paper in New Phyt by @fungidownunder.bsky.social et al. showing that EcM fungal functional traits affect soil C responses to elevated CO2. EcM species and traits really matter!
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The role of ectomycorrhizal functional diversity in mediating soil carbon cycling under global change
Click on the article title to read more.
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September 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A fun commentary with @christinakaiser.bsky.social inspired by a very cool paper in New Phyt by @fungidownunder.bsky.social et al. showing that EcM fungal functional traits affect soil C responses to elevated CO2. EcM species and traits really matter!
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The first chapter of my dissertation is out in Ecology Letters! We pooled data from forest sites across the globe to understand how forests differ in their carbon investment in reproduction (flowers, fruits, seeds). #ForestEcology #GlobalEcology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Forest Age Rivals Climate to Explain Reproductive Allocation Patterns in Forest Ecosystems Globally
Forest allocation of net primary productivity (NPP) to reproduction is poorly quantified globally, despite its critical role in forest regeneration and a well-supported trade-off with allocation to g...
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September 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The first chapter of my dissertation is out in Ecology Letters! We pooled data from forest sites across the globe to understand how forests differ in their carbon investment in reproduction (flowers, fruits, seeds). #ForestEcology #GlobalEcology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
What a week and almost 2 more to go sampling our Mycobiome x Climate Change exp (144/576 done)! We added isotopes to track 🍄 transfer, collected seedlings (so much 🍄🟫) and you can see the myco treatment effects! Grateful for such a great team in the lab! Thanks @snsf.ch and @wwtf.at for support!
August 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Interested in doing a PhD in ecophysiology? This is the place place to do it, amazing team, friendly environment and great supervision!
New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Interested in doing a PhD in ecophysiology? This is the place place to do it, amazing team, friendly environment and great supervision!
Wow, this is totally fascinating and surprising to me!
Early germline sequestration in a basidiomycete fungus | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Early germline sequestration in a basidiomycete fungus
In sexual organisms, inheritance of new mutations is highly dependent on the timing of germline definition. Here, we used the fairy ring–forming fungus Marasmius oreades to challenge the general assum...
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August 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Wow, this is totally fascinating and surprising to me!
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“…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 👇
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#Viewpoint: Is it all about timing? Identifying the symbiosis critical points that govern interactions among #bacteria, ectomycorrhizal #fungi, and land #trees
By Louis Berrios 👇
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August 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“…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/...
#Viewpoint: Is it all about timing? Identifying the symbiosis critical points that govern interactions among #bacteria, ectomycorrhizal #fungi, and land #trees
By Louis Berrios 👇
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Into tropical forest restoration? Check out our new review led by @nadike.bsky.social discussing pathways of SOC gain and loss during active restoration | out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social
Let's get more C back into these soils!
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Let's get more C back into these soils!
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Soil carbon as a blind spot in tropical rainforest restoration
Keller et al. discuss the potential effects of active restoration on soil organic
carbon storage in the topsoil in tropical rainforests.
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August 5, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Into tropical forest restoration? Check out our new review led by @nadike.bsky.social discussing pathways of SOC gain and loss during active restoration | out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social
Let's get more C back into these soils!
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Let's get more C back into these soils!
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I'm so excited to share our new paper in Global Change Biology: A network of 18 wildfire chronosequences reveals key environmental drivers and knowledge gaps in the boreal nitrogen balance, with @michael-gundale.bsky.social and others. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
August 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I'm so excited to share our new paper in Global Change Biology: A network of 18 wildfire chronosequences reveals key environmental drivers and knowledge gaps in the boreal nitrogen balance, with @michael-gundale.bsky.social and others. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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So happy for Alejandro and congrats on securing one of these competitive @oeaw.bsky.social fellowships for his PhD project! Can’t wait to share the results 😊
Big congratulations to Alejandro Llanos-Lizcano on receiving a #DOCfellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)! His research at #CeMESS explores host–microbe interactions in lucinid clams.
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#ÖAW #PhD @univie.ac.at
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#ÖAW #PhD @univie.ac.at
DOC Fellowship for Alejandro Llanos-Lizcano
CeMESS PhD student Alejandro Llanos-Lizcano has been awarded a prestigious DOC Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). The fellowship will support his doctoral research on host–microbe...
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July 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
So happy for Alejandro and congrats on securing one of these competitive @oeaw.bsky.social fellowships for his PhD project! Can’t wait to share the results 😊
Are you in the USA, interesting in greater stability, and looking for a postdoc with excellent funding? Write me to discuss this opportunity to come to Austria under the APART-USA program from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Uni Wien.
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APART-USA
Stipendien & Preise der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
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July 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Are you in the USA, interesting in greater stability, and looking for a postdoc with excellent funding? Write me to discuss this opportunity to come to Austria under the APART-USA program from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Uni Wien.
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Our new results challenge the expectation that climate warming will offset carbon losses caused by heat and drought with a longer growing season in forests: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Decreasing Stem Growth in Common European Tree Species Despite Earlier Growth Onset
Our findings reveal that elevated winter and spring temperatures led to earlier attainment of annual growth levels, indicating an earlier onset of tree growth driven by early season warming. Despite ...
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July 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Our new results challenge the expectation that climate warming will offset carbon losses caused by heat and drought with a longer growing season in forests: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Mark explores the ecology and evolution of fungi, using genomic tools. His team investigates how soil fungi respond to environmental challenges — from invasive species to global warming.
Catch his talk on October 12 in the Audimax of the University of Vienna. . 🎤✨
@anthomycota.bsky.social
Catch his talk on October 12 in the Audimax of the University of Vienna. . 🎤✨
@anthomycota.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Mark explores the ecology and evolution of fungi, using genomic tools. His team investigates how soil fungi respond to environmental challenges — from invasive species to global warming.
Catch his talk on October 12 in the Audimax of the University of Vienna. . 🎤✨
@anthomycota.bsky.social
Catch his talk on October 12 in the Audimax of the University of Vienna. . 🎤✨
@anthomycota.bsky.social
This is a really unique and exciting opportunity for a full professorship in Vienna. Come be my colleague @ter-cemess.bsky.social and join a fantastic group of scientists!
CeMESS is hiring!
Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.
🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.
🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
We are hiring: Full Professor of Soil Ecosystems and Global Change
Soil ecosystems form the foundation of planetary health and play a critical role in climate feedback mechanisms. However, they are also vulnerable to the impacts of global change.
cemess.univie.ac.at
July 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is a really unique and exciting opportunity for a full professorship in Vienna. Come be my colleague @ter-cemess.bsky.social and join a fantastic group of scientists!
Not surprising results (and subject to change as it's not published work) -- but something we really need to grapple with striking a balance around as educators.
phys.org/news/2025-06... I recently found this note. This is a good subject for discussion, I wish I knew more.
Using ChatGPT to write essays may be eroding critical thinking skills
A team of neurologists and AI specialists at MIT's Media Lab has led a study looking into the brain impacts of large language model (LLM) use among people who engage with them for study or work. They ...
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June 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Not surprising results (and subject to change as it's not published work) -- but something we really need to grapple with striking a balance around as educators.
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Out now in its final peer-reviewed form @asm.org's Journal of Virology!
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@dome-vienna.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @amersocvirology.bsky.social
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@dome-vienna.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @amersocvirology.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Out now in its final peer-reviewed form @asm.org's Journal of Virology!
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@dome-vienna.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @amersocvirology.bsky.social
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@dome-vienna.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @amersocvirology.bsky.social
I feared becoming a prof would mean not doing some things I rly value. Yet these last weeks, I did loads of lab work (👋 again PLFA) and bioinformatics (new ONT long read data 🫶), and all between teaching, paper writing, grant chats, and meetings (so many). It’s a great job and I’m lucky to be in 🇦🇹!
June 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I feared becoming a prof would mean not doing some things I rly value. Yet these last weeks, I did loads of lab work (👋 again PLFA) and bioinformatics (new ONT long read data 🫶), and all between teaching, paper writing, grant chats, and meetings (so many). It’s a great job and I’m lucky to be in 🇦🇹!