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Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi - the result can shift mountain grasslands to scrub

By: Stephanie Kivlin, Associate Professor of Ecology, University of Tennessee
Date: February 16, 2026
phenological mismatchColoradoRocky Mountain Biological Laboratorysubalpine meadowNew EnglandMidwest

Summary

Over a three-decade experiment in the Rocky Mountains, fungi and plant life fundamentally changed.