"When trees build wood, is incorporated. It takes a long time to decompose ... It’s a smaller scale in . Some of the material they make can be almost woody. The is tough to decompose. The cell walls stay in the soil, microscopically. ... It adds up to a lot ... twice as much carbon in the soil as in the , and much of that is in [fungi]."
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Kathleen Treseder
(born 1972) is an American professor of ecology and , known for her research on interactions between and ecology. She was elected in 2016 a Fellow of the , in 2017 a Fellow of the , and in 2019 a Fellow of the .
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