Fairy rings (such as the one in the photo on the left) are circles of fungi that often appear in open meadows and in forest areas. In the soil beneath the fungi is an ever-extending mycelium. As the mycelium spreads to seek out more food, it sometimes will produce the fungi we see above ground to produce and release spores. The diagram on the right depicts the outline of a fairy ring that has appeared overnight in an open meadow, as viewed from above. The ring represents the farthest advance of this mycelium through the soil. The letters A-D represent locations with respect to that ring which are all 0.5 meters below the soil surface.
1)If the
a. cement-capped well
b. deceased animal
c. tree stump
d. fire pit
2) Assume that all four locations are 0.5 meters above the surface, rather than below. On a breezy day with prevailing winds blowing from right to left, where would you expect to find the highest concentration of free basidiospores in an air sample? Location __
1. As the fungus is forming a fairy ring in order to seek food, location B will be a place without nutrients for them. As deceased animals and tree stumps act as a source of nutrients for fungus, they are not buried at location B. So it is either a cement capped well or a fire pit.
It is also given the fungus can form arbuscules, so it needs a vascular plant root system in the vicinity. That can happen only if there is a cement capped well buried underneath.
Thing most likely to be buried at location B is cement capped well
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