Mycorrhizal Network

This overview of mycorrhizal symbiosis documents that plants provide up to 30% of photosynthesized carbon to fungal partners in exchange for soil nutrients (especially phosphorus and nitrogen). The article explains how networks link trees of same or different species, enabling resource sharing at ecosystem scale.

The research supports the chapter's argument that mesh networks create value that hub-and-spoke models cannot - each participant gains more from the network than it contributes, but only if others also participate.