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Re:Fungi and bacteria are binging on burned soil by vintermann on Thursday February 09, 2023 @06:35AM (#34722457)
I don't think morels are entirely reliant on myccorrhizal relationships. There have apparently been successful small scale farming attempts without trees, check out the Danish Morel Project.

Either way, if hosts dying was all there was to it, you'd expect all sorts of myccorrhizal mushrooms to grow after a fire, and most don't.

Re:Fungi and bacteria are binging on burned soil by empyrrhicist on Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:57AM (#34727029)
I've definitely seen morels go crazy after their host tree dies - whether by fire or a saw. I also agree that they can likely be partially saprobes, so maybe this adaptation is related more to the latter than the former. I was just pointing out that I think it's far from settled that "fire is good for morels" is true in general, especially for mega fires.