In the forest, fungi are decomposers.

在森林里，真菌是分解者。

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She noticed the lichen, the various mosses, and the white fungi sprouting through the rotting leaves of the forest floor.

她看到了青苔，看到了各色的苔藓，还有林地腐叶中窜出的白色菌落。

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"Thanks to these fungi," says Perry, "it could be that a whole forest is linked together like a community."

“多亏了这些真菌，”佩里说，“它使得整个森林像一个社会一样被联系起来。”

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If preventing fungal attack were the explanation, he argues, young red leaves ought to be more common in a forest's wet understorey, where fungi thrive, than in the drier canopy.

ECONOMIST: Young leaves, as well as old ones, are often coloured red