The final part of the GoLife team’s fieldwork took part in the Valdivian temperate rainforest ecoregion in southern Chile.
This ecoregion harbors various vegetation types, such as evergreen coastal laurel-leaved forest, mid-elevation forest, featuring endemic conifers (Podocarpus nubigenus and Fitzroya cuppressoides),subalpine Nothofagus forest, alpine grassland, and volcanic desert in the Andes. The team sampled a wide variety of macroalgae (red, green, and brown) in the intertidal zone, which are also being examined for endophytic fungi.
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