On this nature walk, I once again went on a TA led trek to Houghton Garden with a bunch of other Eco Evo students. The weather was very gloomy and overcast. During the walk, it was raining a bit and the soil and plants around us were very wet. I observed a lot of fungi during this walk and it might be because of the wetness in the environment due to the rain. This reminds me of how we learned that bacteria and fungi are major decomposers in our ecosystem and I wonder if wetness helps facilitates this decomposition and if so how. This also reminded me of our lecture on how we identify species by different species concepts and I was wondering if fungi is identified mainly based on the morphospecies concept. I observed a lot of differnt fungi and lichen during the walk and I noticed that a lot of the fungi sort of blend in with the brown leaves and soil of the forest floor. I enjoyed this rainy day walk even though usually, I dislike rainy weather.
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