Nigel Cattlin / Sheath rot (Sarocladium oryzae) lesions and necrosis on Rice (Oryza sativa) flagleaf and aborted ears, Luzon, Philippines

Florian Möllers / White stork (Ciconia ciconia) adult portrait, captive, Vogelpark Marlow, Germany, May.

Nigel Cattlin / Tomato (Solanum lycopersicon) with blossom end rot, symptom of calcium deficiency, cultivated in glasshouse. Berkshire, England, UK. July.

Nigel Cattlin / Apple (Malus domestica) fruits infected with Brown rot (Monilinia spp.). Berkshire, England, UK. September.

Nick Upton / Aspen (Populus tremula) with Aspen trunk rot / False tinder conk mushroom (Phellinus tremulae). Trees with rotten cores provide ideal nest holes for the Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans). Mur...

Konrad Wothe / Red orchid in tropical rainforest, northern Ecuador.

Konrad Wothe / Bugs on Heliconia flower, Coreidae, Rainforest at Tambopata river, Tambopata National Reserve, Peru.

Ashley Cooper / Rotting tree stump in Daintree rainforest, northern Queensland, Australia, the oldest continuously forested rainforest area on the planet.

Ashley Cooper / Baling up brashings (dead branches) after timber harvesting on Longridge Fell, Clitheroe, Lancashire, UK, November 2007. The waste wood that would formally have been left to rot is now taken off to a...

Adrian Davies / Jelly rot fungus (Phlebia tremellosa / Merulius tremellosus) Sussex, England, UK. November.

Ingo Arndt / Pattern on Heliconia leaf as it starts to rot, Rainforest, La Gamba, Costa Rica.

Philippe Clement / Close up of decaying pine tree trunks left to rot on forest floor, habitat for invertebrates, mosses and fungi, UK, September.