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Scientists to map fungal networks, determine climate role
The Associated Press ^
| November 30, 2021
| By FRANK JORDANS
Posted on 11/30/2021 1:42:36 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
BERLIN (AP) — Scientists from the United States and Europe announced plans Tuesday to create the biggest map of underground fungal networks, arguing they are an important but overlooked piece in the puzzle of how to tackle climate change.
By working with local communities around the world the researchers said they will collect 10,000 DNA samples to determine how the vast networks that fungi create in the soil are changing as a result of human activity — including global warming.
“Fungi are invisible ecosystem engineers, and their loss has gone largely unnoticed by the public,” said Toby Kiers, a professor of evolutionary biology at Amsterdam’s Free University and co-founder of the non-profit Society for the Protection of Underground Networks that’s spearheading the effort.
“New research and climate models are providing irrefutable evidence that the Earth’s survival is linked to the underground,” she said.
Experts agree that tracking how fungal networks, also known as mycelia, are affected by climate change is important for protecting them — and ensure they can contribute to nature’s own mechanisms for removing carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, from the air.
Fungi can do this by providing nutrients that allow plants to grow faster, for example, or by storing carbon in the trillions of miles of root-like mass they themselves weave underground.
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
There’s a fungus amung us.
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11/30/2021 1:44:37 PM PST
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fruser1
To: Fungi
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posted on
11/30/2021 1:46:39 PM PST
by
JennysCool
("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
They need to buy truffle hogs.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The Great Big Book of Mycelium...
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posted on
11/30/2021 1:48:17 PM PST
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Gotta maintain that funding and no better way then to come up with different studies to prove we’ll all be dead in 15 years.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Scientists to map fungal networks
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posted on
11/30/2021 1:54:09 PM PST
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: fruser1
Movie has already been done from 1963 I think, Attack of the Mushroom People. Not bad Japanese SciFI.
To: Fungi
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posted on
11/30/2021 2:03:10 PM PST
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Did they ask Dr. Fauci? Because he IS science.
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posted on
11/30/2021 2:08:35 PM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Using the term ‘scientist’ and “Global Warming’ in the same sentence is an oxymoron. Or, i guess, multiple morons in the same sentence. It could be worse if they threw in Dr. Fauci in the mix. then totally moronic.
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posted on
11/30/2021 2:10:59 PM PST
by
dirtymac
( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOW)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
As if there wasn’t enough already, more fear porn on deck.
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posted on
11/30/2021 2:30:01 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Democrats, fixing things that haven't been broken, so they don't work, for over 197 years.)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
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posted on
11/30/2021 2:35:30 PM PST
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
And the battle between The Deep Fungus and our Feline Overlords intensifies
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11/30/2021 2:45:17 PM PST
by
algore
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.
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11/30/2021 3:44:37 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv; Darksheare; Red Badger; Oldeconomybuyer; Tax-chick; Dead Corpse; moose07; ArGee; ...
I think we need this for the new Undead Thread!
Oldeconomybuyer, do you think we could borrow this for say, oh, the next 4,000 posts or so? It would get a lot of traction...
And we’ve pretty much used up the old one we’ve been using.
‘Face
;o]
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posted on
11/30/2021 4:03:07 PM PST
by
Monkey Face
(~~ A nation of sheep will soon have a government of wolves. ~~ Edward R Murrow ~~)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Ohhhh Noooooo!! Not fungus too!!!
You bastards.
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posted on
11/30/2021 4:13:14 PM PST
by
nagant
To: Monkey Face
[singing] Won’t you take us to, Fungustown?
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posted on
11/30/2021 5:06:54 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Monkey Face
I like mushrooms... I’m known to be a fun guy...
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11/30/2021 7:12:13 PM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(A Psalm in napalm...)
To: Monkey Face
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posted on
11/30/2021 7:41:11 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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