The fungal sample was interesting partly as it represented a major component of the observed fungal population in a pine forest and it responded positively to elevated CO2 and nitrogen amendment treatments that
mimic future environmental conditions — yet the sample's exact placement in the taxonomic order was unknown.
In the final paper of this issue, Tatters et al. [66] study the competitiveness of natural diatom communities incubated
under future environmental conditions for two weeks, after which the dominant species were isolated and then incubated again for over a year before recombining the now conditioned species to reconstruct the original community.