NunyaBidness on Nostr: Non-mycorhizzal Fungal Networks The forest is bound together by many fungal networks. ...
Non-mycorhizzal Fungal Networks
The forest is bound together by many fungal networks. Not all of them connect to plants and facilitate communications and trading between them.
Many fungal networks simply exist to decompose leaf, twig, and stump. In doing so they "stitch" together and link dead leaves and twigs to lifeless branch and stump. It's more of a structural service than transport yet is just as important: it locks the soils all other forest life depend on in place and unlocks nutrients bound up in the forest's previous inhabitants.
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The forest is bound together by many fungal networks. Not all of them connect to plants and facilitate communications and trading between them.
Many fungal networks simply exist to decompose leaf, twig, and stump. In doing so they "stitch" together and link dead leaves and twigs to lifeless branch and stump. It's more of a structural service than transport yet is just as important: it locks the soils all other forest life depend on in place and unlocks nutrients bound up in the forest's previous inhabitants.
#Alexandria