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Ep. 430 - Seedlings in the Mycorrhizal Network

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Carbon Transfer in the Woods

Carbon from plant to fungus, that's pretty worked out. But then the other pathways I think you're talking about is like, how might carbon be moving below ground if not through my cryosol network? And what we came across is there are a number of experiments that show it's definitely possible that no common my Cryosol network is needed for small amounts of carbon to be moving between plants in planted in the forest. We thought that was pretty interesting and like fascinating, like how does that happen? Because if you have a bit of carbon moving around in the soil,you know, and organisms are all like carbon limited in the soil,. Like why aren't they eating it up

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