Fungal mycelium growing across a decomposing leaf Alex Hyde/Nature Picture Library/Alamy
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, at Flinders University in Australia and his colleagues…
