Underground Microbe-Root Networks Directed Forestation and Forest Regeneration: Towards a High Planetary Standard of Life

Abstract

Educated predictions for the 21st Century regarding Earth and Homo sapiens status evolvement on it have foreseen new and better advances in Science and Technology: Magnetism as the primer energy source, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for automation, The Universal Basic Income, Cryptocurrencies and the Internet of Things as the suitable and improved replacement for central banking system, and the development of a Global Culture, with it the establishment of global standards of living under scientific terms, Economy and Politics the two basic social constructs for a Superorganism’s internal cohesion, they all sum up the expectation of a Planetary Standard of Living, Environment quality included into those assumptions. A focus in soil microbe-root networks forestation and forest regeneration is reviewed as to comply in the future with the environmental needs. The following steps would best facilitate seedling establishment and free growing forests: 1. Identification of Mother or Micorrhyzal-fungi “Hub” trees through field and ecological research, 2. Identification of Arbuscular and Ectomycorrhizal species dominant of the Wide-Wood-web through classical observational techniques or molecular techniques such metagenomics and RNA-based techniques to measure populational and metabolic dominance, 3. Identification of non-fungi microbial associates of the Wide-Wood-Web, 4. Forestation/ Forest Regeneration based on the establishment of vigorous seedlings which thereafter sustain a free growing ecosystem by the colligative growing of Wide-Wood-Web fungi and their microbial associates. Additional research in agrarian ecosystems and exo-earth substrates would provide information as to improve crop production and terraform alien landscapes.

Keywords: Wide-Wood-Web, Underground Microbiota, Forestation and Forest Regeneration, Terraformation.