“Fungi extend relationships through the soil to other plants, assisting nutrient transfer and uniting plant communities”
Once it was mushrooms attracting all the attention. They still are but the growing interest in mycelium and the notion of subterranean networks of fungi is changing not only how we understand fungi and forests, but life. Fungi provide a fundamental foundation to the forest and are a key to understanding how forests work.
For many of us, fungi are puzzling because we make sense of nature based on our understanding of animals and plants. That’s what we were taught in school. Fungi are often defined not by what they are, but by what they are not.
Fungi are very different organisms to plants and animals in the way they are composed and how they operate. To grasp what fungi are and do in ecosystems, it helps to get a sense of how they grow and feed, the nature of their interactions
