Global network
Global network
Big projects like those included in Botanic Gardens Conservation International prove the existence of the global network for communication in nature. Above the soil is mostly what we notice, but below it is a whole world waiting to be discovered. SO far we have learned that the CO2 cycle includes every piece of nature and that our activity is affecting the whole ecosystem. Observing the CO2 cycle in the rainforests teaches us how trees can absorb part of this CO2 but what is happening after absorption?
Below trees and grasses, bushes there is a wide network of very small to microscopic species, communicating within and sending nutrients where needed. Previously described examples of symbiosis is just one way of communicating and global contribution. Every activity is resulting in the footprint which will later affect other creatures within this lace of activity, but also further, because of this network below the soil. Roots, plant veins, and especially fungi mycelium, they are all connected, sharing nutrients from the soil. spreading vibrations and communicating on to us known and unknown ways.
Recent studies show how much are magnetic field next to the gravitation and vibration influential to the whole natural world. A simple sample is knowing of incoming tsunamis by wild animals and their fast movement to the place which they consider safer. Up till now, we are not familiar with the way these creatures know of the coming danger and their first response. Assuming that vibrations are those who alert animals, we also follow the same path and try to determine incoming earthquakes but rarely succeed. Advanced technology wasn’t very helpful, at least not in compression with the feeling wild creatures have and use to run and hid, protect.
As for the plants, they are not mobile but have their ways of protection. The goal is to protect the seed and when plants develop such technique, it usually means that seed can dominate and survive hush conditions for a very long time or it can be simply transported in the digestive system of wild animals, etc.
The question is, can plants and fungi communicate with animals through different chemicals? Can the grass eaten by animals contain alerting information that will raise adrenaline and rush wild creatures to some safe place to be?
Behavioral biology joined with Biochemistry of the metabolism can give us proper answers, but the lack of interest is leaving us behind the truth. Is it too difficult to accept that every day we destroy a part of this global network and can it be still repaired? Some of these answers can be given by mycologists who believe that simple solutions are the best solution to learn more about the fungi mycelium and to understand better ways of nature.
Can fungi be one of our best chances to recuperate and transform what is heavily destroyed? Can fungi promise us a better, cleaner future?
