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Life has an intriguing suggestion, could playing sounds to fungi help greatly in composting and reclaiming habitats. Lab experiments show that fungi responding to acoustic stimulations have shown significant growth rate increases.
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Fungal mycelium growing across a decomposing leaf
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Playing sounds to fungi seems to make them grow faster, which may allow researchers to speed up composting and habitat restoration.
Scientists now know that healthy soils have a unique soundscape produced by invertebrates such as earthworms and ants, but they have not yet studied how this background noise in the ecosystem affects plant and fungal growth.
To investigate the impacts of sounds on fungi, Jake Robinson at Flinders University…
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