“Assessing ecosystems without taking into account the fungi is like taking care of computers but not the chips inside.”
Joan Kelley of the Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International in Wallingford, UK, warning that the study of fungi in the UK could end in 10 years because it is no longer taught at universities (The Independent, London, 28 November)
“It’s been a bit like a long-drawn-out Agatha Christie mystery.”
Rom Whitaker of the Madras Crocodile Bank, on deducing what is killing the large crocodilians called gharials in India’s Chambal river. He now believes gharials feed on toxin-laden fish downstream in…
