Building a map of Earth's mycorrhizal fungal networks

What would a map of the planet's mycorrhizal fungal networks look like? In April 2022, we launched a massive sampling effort led by the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (spun.earth/), together with the Fungi Foundation (www.ffungi.org/) to develop maps of global mycorrhizal fungal diversity.
We met with a Mapuche mushroom expert, and took soil cores to analyse fungal communities on the slopes of volcanoes, on dunes, in forests of monkey puzzle trees and desolate clearcuts, and vertical bushwhacked through thickets of bamboo, recording the sounds of the soil using buried microphones to compare activity in wildly different underground environment.
Video by: Mateo Barrenengoa (www.mateobarre...)
Soil sounds by: Cosmo Sheldrake (www.cosmosheld...)
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[@janetpattison8474]

Amazing! Wow , I’d never heard of this until today, 7/2024. Fascinating. That what I loved as a kid, was being outside, exploring and seeing life. Now life is a bore, indoors in a super hot climate😢.

[@samuelgeorge8524]

Brilliant work! This is going to reveal so much. It also is going to probably humble us. Really exciting times ahead.

[@alliemiddleton]

“It’s like your stomach…” :)

[@toomanyhobbies116]

"yes, we do all eat psilocybin mushrooms, how could you tell?"

[@AlwynRoets]

i did some videos on what makes the sounds you recorded just yesterday funny how i wished i could hear it and there i did thanx alot

[@blackrocks8413]

giggle...tehehheee....SNORT! too funny

[@winstonsmith935]

Great effort, unfortunately the Politicians are running thing not you

[@nosondre]

You guys are a trip

[@kindredcustomsnowboardsand1756]

Incredible work.

[@scottbille7176]

I love this! ❤️ 🍄❤

[@mrtomazanderson]

Hey
You guys know that this "stomach" sound is a pattern of communication, right?

[@spununderground]

Hi Anderson! We are a team of mycorrhizal scientists who is very interested in understanding if/how trees communicate using belowground fungi. We do lots of work with tracing carbon flows, so you might like our other videos!

[@henriknorstrom5353]

Thank you!

[@CedJackson]

So fantastic! I recently started listening to trees on my hikes and I recognized the sounds , different, but not foreign. This is great this work is being done!

[@arborsamurai]

I love this project wholeheartedly ❤️

[@robertling9872]

Thank you for sharing this intresting information and video.