University of Sheffield

The Underground Network That Moves Carbon Into Soil

Scientists have produced the first global map of the mycorrhizal fungi that thread through the world's topsoil, and the scale is hard to picture: roughly 110 quadrillion kilometres of network, partnered with about 70% of all plant species, pulling an estimated…Scientists have produced the first global map of the mycorrhizal fungi that thread through the world's topsoil, and the scale is hard to picture: roughly 110 quadrillion kilometres of network, partnered with about 70% of all plant species, pulling an estimated…Expert summary pending. Showing the newcomer version.