Underground Explorers

Our project aims to explore the ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity from Yucatan Peninsula and El Salvador. Yucatan has been considered as one of the high endemic places around the globe and we want to sample all their different ecosystems to have better picture of what is leading to this incredible diversity. On the other hand, there are similar ecosystems in El Salvador but this country has been studied very scarcely, so this study will be the first on its type to describe its diversity and then compare it with data we have from other Neotropical places.