It's Okay To Be Smart - References
It's Okay To Be Smart - References
How Trees Talk: The Wood Wide Web
How Trees Talk: The Wood Wide Web
Walk into any forest, and beneath your feet is an elaborate social network that helps make life on Earth possible. It’s called the “Wood Wide Web”, a massive and intricate network of fungi that exchange water, nutrients, and chemical signals with the plants they’re living in a symbiotic relationship with. This network of fungi is essential to the health and function of forests and to controlling climate change itself. You’re about to look at fungi in a whole new way!
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Sources:
Tom Crowther (interview)
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