Brown Rot at Work in the Forest (IMAGE)

DOE/Joint Genome Institute

Brown Rot at Work in the Forest

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The forest floor of an old-growth pine forest in the Grand Tetons National Park, Wyoming, USA. A dead tree is decayed by brown rot fungi, forming a reddish-brown background against which a marmot is camouflaged.

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Sarah Watkinson, University of Oxford

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