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Session Proposal: Its All Fun-gi and Games: The Role of Fungi in Biogeochemical Cycles (AGU25)

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Its All Fun-gi and Games: The Role of Fungi in Biogeochemical Cycles

Session ID#: 247527

Session Description:
The fungal kingdom displays an incredible amount of biodiversity on the planet driving many important ecosystem processes, such as decomposition and nutrient cycling. Living as symbionts, parasites, decomposers, and free-living organisms; fungi interact with the environment in a variety of ways to influence critical earth systems processes. In this session we will explore the numerous roles fungi play in shaping earth systems processes. From saprotrophic activity and nutrient cycling in forests and aquatic systems to mineralogical weathering and geological processes, and from carbon storage and mycorrhizal fungi to tree physiology and forest health; fungi represent a dynamic and diverse kingdom with highly specialized roles in virtually every ecosystem. Understanding the complex, and nuanced, roles fungi play in environmental and earth sciences, and how they interact with other micro and macro-organisms to influence earth biogeochemistry, represents an exciting and critical endeavor uniting collaboration across many disciplines.
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0470 Nutrients and nutrient cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
Primary Convener:  Sean Schaefer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States
Conveners:  Mark McDonald, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, School of Geosciences, Lafayette, United States, Lang C DeLancey, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Hannah Shulman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States
 
The influence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plant resource use economics (1857741)
Snehanjana Chatterjee1, Evan A Perkowski2 and Nicholas G Smith1, (1)Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States, (2)Texas Tech University, Lubbock, United States
 
How mycorrhizal fungi shape ecosystem biogeochemical cycles: insights from mycorrhizae-explicit modeling efforts (Invited) (1861546)
Siya Shao, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States; University of Arizona, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States, Benjamin N Sulman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States and Caitlin Hicks Pries, Dartmouth College, Department of Biological Sciences, Hanover, United States
 
Rewilding forest fungal microbiology as a natural climate solution (Invited) (1874821)
Colin Averill, Dawson Fairbanks, Ann Raiho, Ian Ware, Alison Ketz, Caylon Yates, Zoey Werbin, Denis Willett, Will Bradham, Tyler Claxton, Liam Gogel and Lily Gannon, Funga PBC, Austin, United States
 
Trace Metal Contamination Drives Enzymatic Suppression and Fungal Diversity Loss in Hypersaline Sediments of the Indian Sundarbans (1885935)
Shouvik Mahanty, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Department of Earth Sciences, Kolkata, India, Gopala Krishna Darbha, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Earth Sciences, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal, India and Santanu Majumder, Bournmouth University, Poole, United Kingdom
 
Putting Mycorrhizal Carbon on the Map: Modeling the Total Carbon Flux and Sequestration Potential of Earth’s Mycorrhizal Fungal Networks (1905595)
Michael Van Nuland1, Jinsu Elhance1, Justin Stewart1,2, Heidi Hawkins3, Renato Kerches Braghiere4,5, Vasilis Kokkoris6, Thomas Shimizu7 and Toby Kiers8, (1)Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, Dover, United States, (2)Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-LIFE), Section Ecology & Evolution,, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (3)University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-LIFE), Section Systems Biology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (7)AMOLF Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (8)Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 
Cultivation Technique of Mycelium and Fruiting Bodies of Pleurotus ostreatus Using a Recyclable Inorganic-Based Substrate (1905779)
Junsu Jang1, Jayeon Yoo2, Jinyoung Lee3 and Hee Wook Ryu3, (1)SoongSil University, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA, (2)SoongSil University, Dongjak-gu, South Korea, (3)Soongsil University, Seoul, South Korea
 
Growth and Thermal Properties of Fomitella fraxinea Mycelium Composites Cultivated on Vermiculite-Based Substrates (1906009)
Jayeon Yoo1, Junsu Jang2, Jinyoung Lee3 and Hee Wook Ryu3, (1)SoongSil University, Dongjak-gu, South Korea, (2)SoongSil University, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA, (3)Soongsil University, Seoul, South Korea
 
Soil Fungal Contributions to Carbon Dynamics: Insights from Decades of Land Use Changes at Camp El Tesoro, Texas (1910849)
Tabby Pyle, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, United States and Omar Richard Harvey, Texas Christian University, Geological Sciences, Fort Worth, TX, United States
 
Fungal functional roles in lakes along a dissolved organic carbon gradient in Canada (1933669)
Joanna Gauthier1, Rebecca Garner2, Sara Soria-Píriz3, Amir Shahabinia3, Wen Chen4, Frances Pick5, Paul del Giorgio3, Hans-Peter Grossart6, David Walsh7 and Marguerite A. Xenopoulos1, (1)Trent University, Department of Biology, Peterborough, ON, Canada, (2)University of California, Innovative Genomics Institute, Berkeley, United States, (3)University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Département des sciences biologiques, Montreal, QC, Canada, (4)Agriculture and Agri-Fodd Canada (AAFC), Ottawa Research and Development Centre (ORDC), Ottawa, Canada, (5)University of Ottawa, Department of Biology, Ottawa, Canada, (6)Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany, (7)Concordia University, Department of Biology, Montreal, Canada
 
Fungal populations isolated from Mariana forearc serpentinizing basement fluid and their potential for carbon cycling (1973978)
Lydia Hayes-Guastella1,2, Peter H Barry3, Michael Ward Broadley4, Susan Q Lang5, Karen G Lloyd6, Sarina Mitchell7, Madelyn Petersen8, Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert9, Jeffrey Seewald3, Charles Wheat10 and Brandi Kiel Reese2,11, (1)University of South Alabama, Mobile, United States, (2)Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole, United States, (4)University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, (5)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, United States, (6)University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (7)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Microbiology, Knoxville, United States, (8)University of South Carolina, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment, Columbia, United States, (9)Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, (10)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (11)University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, United States
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