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Ep. 76: Mycorenewal - Ecological Restoration, Microbial Ecology & Bioremediation (feat. Mia Maltz PhD)

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The Role of Microbes in Biofiltration

I would imagine this is very much another example of needing tons of observation, situational observation, to see in all these different use cases, what's going on so you can better understand what the mechanisms are. So people have been using waddles or these long tubes of substrate, a long contour to be able to filter the water that's flowing post-fire or from any sort of polluting plume. Can we harness the power of the indigenous microbial community to do some of this work? And if so, is it promoting diversity and not necessarily leading towards the erosion control or keeping pollutants out of the flowing waterways with sensitive species that depend on them?

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