enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Conservation of fungi - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_fungi

    Fungi provide numerous ecosystem services that are essential in maintaining ecological environments and reducing the effects of climate change. [3] Fungi help facilitate the nutrient cycle and carbon cycle, act as a food source for humans and animals, regulate animals populations, and contribute to the degradation of various pollutants. [3]

  3. John Klironomos - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Klironomos

    Klironomos and colleagues have highlighted the importance of integrating both aboveground and belowground perspectives in developing effective strategies for ecosystem management and restoration. They demonstrated how aboveground and belowground components of ecosystems are intricately linked, with both influencing community and ecosystem ...

  4. Mycorrhizal fungi and soil carbon storage - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhizal_fungi_and_soil...

    Soil carbon storage is an important function of terrestrial ecosystems. Soil contains more carbon than plants and the atmosphere combined. [1] Understanding what maintains the soil carbon pool is important to understand the current distribution of carbon on Earth, and how it will respond to environmental change.

  5. Root microbiome - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_microbiome

    Mycorrhizal fungi can extend a great distance into bulk soil, [5] thereby increasing the root system's reach and surface area, enabling mycorrhizal fungi to acquire a large percentage of its host plant's nutrients. In some ecosystems, up to 80% of plant nitrogen and 90% of plant phosphorus is acquired by mycorrhizal fungi. [14]

  6. Mycorrhizal network - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhizal_network

    In a natural ecosystem, plants simultaneously participate in symbiotic relationships with multiple fungi, and some of these relationships may be commensal or parasitic. The connectivity between plants believed to share a common mycorrhizal network is also difficult to verify in a natural ecosystem.

  7. Economics of biodiversity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_biodiversity

    This includes its role in providing ecosystem services - the benefits that humans get from ecosystems. Biodiversity plays a major role in the productivity and functioning of ecosystems, affects their ability to provide ecosystem services. [2] For example, biodiversity is a source of food, medication, and materials used in industry. Recreation ...

  8. Soil biology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_biology

    Of these, bacteria and fungi play key roles in maintaining a healthy soil. They act as decomposers that break down organic materials to produce detritus and other breakdown products. Soil detritivores, like earthworms, ingest detritus and decompose it. Saprotrophs, well represented by fungi and bacteria, extract soluble nutrients from delitro ...

  9. Fungiculture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungiculture

    Cultivating fungi can yield foods (which include mostly mushrooms), medicine, construction materials and other products. A mushroom farm is involved in the business of growing fungi. The word is also commonly used to refer to the practice of cultivation of fungi by animals such as leafcutter ants, termites, ambrosia beetles, and marsh periwinkles.