The role of mushrooms in recycling - environmental sustainability
by the students of DDMN Primary school of Crete, Greece
1. Mushrooms provide a vital role in releasing scarce, yet biologically-essential
elements, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, from decaying matter.
2. Their mode of nutrition, which involves digestion before ingestion, allows
mushrooms to degrade many large and insoluble molecules that would otherwise
remain trapped in a habitat.
3. Mushrooms play a major role as decomposers and recyclers in the wide variety
of habitats in which they exist because they help the survival of species from other
kingdoms through the supply of nutrients.