Global density and biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks

https://a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth/map#2.6/28.85/59.93

and the paper https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu4373

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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 23d (3 replies)

It’s interesting that most mountain systems, including the Rockies, Sierra Nevada, Alps, Andes, and even the Himalayas, have dense, continuous networks; but the Appalachians look like a big hole.

Other odd gaps are the upper Amazon, Poland, and east/central China.

benjhm@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 23d

Indeed - why so low in most of Poland, compared to neighbouring regions with similar climate/crops, also I wonder if tibetan plateau is really so great for Fungi? Or are these artefacts from the machine-learning algorithm?

jafra@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 23d (1 reply)

Of course that has multiple complex relations. One might be intensity of agricultural usage.

Monitoring this over longer periods of time will be interesting, a pity there's not much data for the past years?

jafra@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 23d

Quite interesting is, bigger roads (or heavily used roads) seem to act as a kind of barrier.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 23d (1 reply)

Hmm, this map is buggy. No zoom or moving on Fennec. And empty on Cromite.

jafra@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 23d

Vanadium works