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Overview

Lynne Boddy is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on fungal ecology and related disciplines. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Plant Science, Insect Science, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers key topics such as Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research, Lichen and fungal ecology, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, Plant and animal studies, and Fungal Biology and Applications.

Lynne Boddy has published numerous articles in various scientific venues. They have a significant number of publications in the journal Fungal Ecology, as well as contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Change Biology, and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

Recent papers include:

  • Fungal behaviour: a new frontier in behavioural ecology, 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Network traits predict ecological strategies in fungi, 2022, ISME Communications
  • Inhibitory effects of climate change on the growth and extracellular enzyme activities of a widespread Antarctic soil fungus, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Fungal endophytes and origins of decay in beech (Fagus sylvatica) sapwood, 2022, Fungal Ecology
  • Ten principles for conservation translocations of threatened wood-inhabiting fungi, 2020, Fungal Ecology

Collaboration is a noteworthy aspect of their career, with frequent coauthors including Håvard Kauserud, Emma C. Gilmartin, Lisa Fagerli Lunde, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, and Rannveig M. Jacobsen.

Best Publications

  • Living in a fungal world: impact of fungi on soil bacterial niche development⋆

    Wietse de Boer;Larissa B. Folman;Richard C. Summerbell;Lynne Boddy

  • Fungal decomposition of wood. Its biology and ecology.

    A. D. M. Rayner;Lynne Boddy

  • Networks of power and influence: the role of mycorrhizal mycelium in controlling plant communities and agroecosystem functioning

    Jonathan Leake;David Johnson;Damian Donnelly;Gemma Muckle

  • Analysis of microbial community functional diversity using sole-carbon-source utilisation profiles - a critique.

    Juliet Preston-Mafham;Lynne Boddy;Peter Frederick Randerson

  • Interspecific combative interactions between wood-decaying basidiomycetes

    Lynne Boddy

  • WOOD DECOMPOSITION, HIGHER FUNGI, AND THEIR ROLE IN NUTRIENT REDISTRIBUTION

    Lynne Boddy;Sarah C. Watkinson

  • Saprotrophic cord-forming fungi: meeting the challenge of heterogeneous environments

    Lynne Boddy

  • Rapid and Recent Changes in Fungal Fruiting Patterns

    A. C. Gange;E.G. Gange;Timothy Sparks;L. Boddy

  • Bacteria in decomposing wood and their interactions with wood-decay fungi

    Sarah R. Johnston;Lynne Boddy;Andrew J. Weightman

  • Functional and ecological consequences of saprotrophic fungus-grazer interactions.

    Thomas W Crowther;Thomas W Crowther;Lynne Boddy;T Hefin Jones

  • Fungal decomposition of wood

    A. D. M. Rayner;Lynne. Boddy

  • Do all trees carry the seeds of their own destruction? PCR reveals numerous wood decay fungi latently present in sapwood of a wide range of angiosperm trees

    David Parfitt;Julie Hunt;David Dockrell;Hilary Joan Rogers

  • Climate variation effects on fungal fruiting

    Lynne Boddy;Ulf Büntgen;Ulf Büntgen;Simon Egli;Alan C. Gange

  • Saprotrophic cord-forming fungi: Warfare strategies and other ecological aspects

    Lynne Boddy

  • Persistence of bacterial denitrification capacity under aerobic conditions: The rule rather than the exception

    David Lloyd;Lynne Boddy;Kathryn J.P. Davies

  • ORIGINS OF DECAY IN LIVING DECIDUOUS TREES: THE ROLE OF MOISTURE CONTENT AND A RE-APPRAISAL OF THE EXPANDED CONCEPT OF TREE DECAY

    Lynne Boddy;A. D. M. Rayner

  • Rates and quantities of carbon flux to ectomycorrhizal mycelium following 14C pulse labeling of Pinus sylvestris seedlings: effects of litter patches and interaction with a wood-decomposer fungus.

    J. R. Leake;D. P. Donnelly;E. M. Saunders;L. Boddy

  • Priority effects during fungal community establishment in beech wood

    Jennifer Hiscox;Melanie Savoury;Carsten Theodor Muller;Björn D. Lindahl

  • A fungal perspective on conservation biology.

    Jacob Heilmann-Clausen;Jacob Heilmann-Clausen;Jacob Heilmann-Clausen;Elizabeth S. Barron;Lynne Boddy;Anders Dahlberg

  • Ecology of Saprotrophic Basidiomycetes

    Lynne Boddy;J. C. Frankland;P. Van West

  • Impact of white-rot fungi on numbers and community composition of bacteria colonizing beech wood from forest soil

    Larissa B. Folman;Paulien J.A. Klein Gunnewiek;Lynne Boddy;Wietse De Boer

  • Fungal colonization of attached beech branches

    I. H. Chapela;Lynne Boddy

Frequent Co-Authors

T. Hefin Jones
T. Hefin Jones Cardiff University
Ulf Büntgen
Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge
Einar Heegaard
Einar Heegaard Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
Alan C. Gange
Alan C. Gange Royal Holloway University of London
Håvard Kauserud
Håvard Kauserud University of Oslo
Claus Bässler
Claus Bässler Goethe University Frankfurt
Jacob Heilmann-Clausen
Jacob Heilmann-Clausen University of Copenhagen
Mark D. Fricker
Mark D. Fricker University of Oxford
Thomas W. Crowther
Thomas W. Crowther King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Daniel P. Bebber
Daniel P. Bebber University of Exeter

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