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Arb Notes: Inventorying arb species

Carleton’s Arb houses a plethora of species. It is difficult — impossible really — to determine all of the species that inhabit the Arb. Many have been observed, but despite intensive searching, many can easily avoid detection. Some species may be difficult to find due to their biological characteristics. For…

Arb Notes: Fascinated and Fluted: Bird’s nest fungi in the arb

There are many “ologies” in the world that relate to living organisms. Entomology, ornithology, mammalogy; the list goes on. One lesser-known discipline is mycology: the study of fungi. Fungi are a diverse group of organisms. There are 144,000 described species, with as many as 3.7 million more that remain undiscovered.…