00:00Erin, did you get the, yeah, dang it, I'm not ready.
00:12Just walking through here, if it wasn't for fungi, we wouldn't be able to walk through
00:19here at all.
00:20It would be all through the downwoods that we couldn't get through.
00:27We only have described in science about 150,000 species.
00:32So there's many metrics or estimates of fungal biodiversity.
00:36If we take it at its lowest value, we've described less than 6% of fungal biodiversity.
00:43So we know very little about fungi, especially relative to vertebrates.
00:47We know about 98% of the vertebrates that are on the planet.
00:50We know about 85% of plants that exist on the planet.
00:55We know about 20% of invertebrates.
00:58So we take percentages, we know relatively the least amount of fungal biodiversity.
01:07You have to smell this.
01:19It's so important because we may not even have flora and fauna without funga.
01:25So, yeah, I mean, we really need to start working together as scientists, too,
01:30and becoming more multidisciplinary in the way that we look at ecology
01:36and we look at biodiversity.
01:38And fungi is one of those interconnected webs almost between all of the forms of life.
01:45So it's got three gills.
01:47And it will be pink-spotted.
01:50Oh, look at that.
01:52Those are both the same species.
01:54The yellower species is much more, like, mustardy.
02:03This would be my first time actually going on a mushroom walk like this,
02:07and I've learned so much, and it was so interesting to see.
02:10This would be my first time actually going on a mushroom walk like this,
02:13and I've learned so much, and it was so interesting to see.
02:16They're obviously going to take them to the lab,
02:18and I'm kind of curious to understand a bit more about them.
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