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📰 Megafire Could Not Kill the Fungi 🔥
🌎 Mojave Desert: The 2020 Dome Fire wiped out a million Eastern Joshua Trees, leaving a haunting landscape of charred trunks.
🍄 But underground? The mycorrhizal fungi community held strong, diverse, abundant, and even joined by fire‑loving specialists.
🌱 This resilience means restoration efforts don’t need costly soil amendments. The fungal partners are still there, ready to help new seedlings if they can survive drought and herbivores.
💪 Even in extreme disturbance, fungal networks endure, quietly anchoring ecosystem recovery.
🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-05-megafire-joshua-trees-fungi.html
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