Fungi: The Ancient Architects of Terrestrial Life
TL;DR
Conservationists are leveraging 400-million-year-old plant-fungi relationships, particularly mycorrhizal fungi, to restore forests, improve soil health, sequester carbon, and promote sustainable agriculture, demonstrating their vital role in ecological and climate solutions.
Topics:scienceenvironment#biodiversity#climate-change#environment#forest-restoration#mycorrhizal-fungi#soil-health
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- Fungi Paved the Way for Terrestrial Life Far Earlier Than Previously Believed BIOENGINEER.ORG
- A timetree of Fungi dated with fossils and horizontal gene transfers Nature
- Fungi Were Shaping Earth Long Before Plants Existed ScienceBlog.com
- Fungi may have set the stage for life on land hundreds of millions of years earlier than thought Phys.org
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