image: A soldier termite is on a piece of fungal comb that has been dug up from below ground at Mpala Research Centre in central Kenya. These termites harvest plant material and use it as a substrate for cultivating fungus (white material) in underground nest chambers. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 6, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.A. Bonachela at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, and colleagues was titled, "Termite mounds can increase the robustness of dryland ecosystems to climatic change." view more
Credit: [Credit: Rob Pringle]