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Mycorrhizal Network — Soil Microbiome Nutrient Exchange

Interactive 3D mycorrhizal network simulator: watch trees trade carbon sugars for fungal water and phosphorus through underground hyphae, and see a shaded mother tree subsidize young saplings across the shared soil microbiome.

Ecology & Conservation Biology3DModerate60 FPS💧 Water 🌍 Earth

A stand of forest trees shares a single underground fungal network — the "wood wide web" — built from mycorrhizal hyphae that colonize each tree's roots. Start the exchange to watch the two-way trade that keeps the symbiosis running: trees send carbon sugars from photosynthesis down into the fungus, and the fungus sends back water and phosphorus drawn from far more soil than roots alone could reach. Select a tree to see its own flows highlighted, including the extra carbon the shaded mother tree routes through the network to support younger saplings that can't yet make enough sugar of their own.

⚙ Under the hood

Watch a shared fungal network link the roots of several forest trees: sugars flow from tree to fungus, water and phosphorus flow back, and a shaded mother tree routes surplus carbon underground to sunlight-starved saplings. Select any tree to see its own flows and running totals.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install