The Serviceberries are networked not only aboveground with partners for pollination and dispersal but belowground with webs of mycorrhizal fungi and other microbial communities that are exchanging resources. Perhaps inculcated with the Tragedy of the Commons perspective, we used to assume that these fungi were “stealing” nutrients from the trees, but the closer we look, it seems as if the nutrients might be freely given in a network of reciprocity.
