- Entangled life by Merlin Sheldrake shows how, amongst many other amazing facts, tightly integrated mushrooms and trees are. Everything about this is amazing to me.
by bookofjoe
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- Richard Powers' novel "The Overstory" takes this premise and wraps a wonderfully entertaining and fact-suffused novel around it. Highly recommended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overstory
- The sheer volume of life here is incredible. I already know trees to be stewards of life on earth but wasn't aware they had complex inner ecosystems themselves.
- New business idea- probiotics for plants! (Why not, there are already mycorrhizal fertilizers)
- I guessed this!!!!
I know insects also have their own microbiomes
- Trees(softwoods) have greater genetic variability between indivuals of the same species than humans, which made prosecuting "log jacking" much easier, as a simple chip could be taken from each log at a mill or on a truck and matched to stumps of trees taken illegaly. The great variability amongst indivuals makes genetic matching, fast and cheap.
This is relevant to the discussion as it poses the idea that greater variability in the biomes of indivual trees could be partly liked to greater genetic variability of the trees themselves.
If so, the value of intact large forests is then
increased, and may point to non linear decreases in other forsest species.
by ants_everywhere
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- Serious question: how could it not?
Surely the contribution is cataloging and detailing information about tree microbiomes and not proving that they aren't all identical?
- Domain of Science just put out a great new "Map of" video that shows how fungi are up in everything:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FqFg-rjzPo
by bookofjoe
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- https://archive.ph/FqrQ9
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