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interesting observation by Suzanne Simard and others like Paul Stamets is a group of deciduous trees when fully shaded by taller conifer trees is mysteriously h
by AtomicOrbital 7y ago
interesting observation by Suzanne Simard and others like Paul Stamets is a group of deciduous trees when fully shaded by taller conifer trees is mysteriously happy and healthy which because shaded should not happen. After many months of investigation a different stand of deciduous trees relatively far away who are in full sunlight where the source of nutrients conveyed over to the shaded trees by an underground mycelium network ... in effect the underground fungi where farming the trees ... keeping the forest healthy in effort to have more food in the future