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mycelium: a standalone construct

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Mycology

The branching hyphal network that forages and connects

The mycelium is the body of a fungus as a whole: the interconnected, branching, fusing mass of hyphae that spreads through soil, wood, or a host and through which the fungus forages for nutrients and moves them over distance. Because hyphae anastomose, the mycelium behaves as a self-organising transport network that can reallocate resources and even balance exploration against efficient flow. Fricker and colleagues' The mycelium as a network analyses it in exactly those terms. The referent is the fungal network body, the vegetative stage from which fruiting structures later arise.[1]

Unit
The extent, connectivity, and transport capacity of the hyphal network
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Quantified by network measures of the hyphal graph (connectivity, transport efficiency) and by colony extent and biomass

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References

  1. Fricker, M. D., Heaton, L. L. M., Jones, N. S., & Boddy, L. (2017). The mycelium as a network. Microbiology Spectrum, 5(3). https://doi.org/10.1128/microbiolspec.funk-0033-2017

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