agnt eco · lichen + fungi

mycelia · the network underneath the network

Eleven biomes — nine agnt eco agent territories plus the Amsterdamse Bos and Rondane National Park — sat side by side, asking one question: which fungi and lichens do they share?
11 systems · 1,001 species · 26 shared · 55 RUNA-1 bridges
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This page sits eleven biomes side by side — nine agnt eco agent territories (rivers, lakes, coast, forest) plus the Amsterdamse Bos and Rondane National Park — and asks one question: which fungi and lichens do they share? Each entity contributes its own species list (kingdom = Fungi, including lichenised fungi). A "shared" species is one whose scientific name appears, exact and case-insensitive, in two or more lists.

Below: headline counts · a map with arcs joining the entities that share the most widespread species · an 11×11 sharing matrix · a chord ring showing every pairwise overlap · a sortable table of every shared species · the methods footer with sources and caveats. The data is honest about asymmetry: a 24-species curated list and a 13,880-occurrence GBIF harvest don't compete on equal footing — see methods.

Section 1

The map

Eleven locations across northwest Europe. The fifteen most widely shared fungi are drawn as great-circle arcs joining the entities where they were recorded. Click a species chip below to isolate its arcs; click again to release. Stroke thickness scales with how many entities share the species.

Tiles: CARTO Positron (base) · OpenTopoMap (overlay, low opacity). Arcs are visual sugar — they don't imply dispersal routes, just shared presence.

Section 2

The matrix

An 11×11 heatmap. Each cell counts how many fungi/lichen species the row entity shares with the column entity. Diagonal is zero by construction (a list doesn't share with itself). Coral intensity = more shared species. Hover any cell to see the species list.

Section 3

The chord

The same pairwise sharing as the matrix, wrapped into a ring. Each segment is one entity; segment length scales with how much sharing it participates in. The ribbons between segments are weighted by the number of shared species. Hover a ribbon for the species list, or a segment for that entity's total sharing.

Section 4

The table

Every species that appears in two or more entities — the full shared inventory. Click a header to sort. The green left-edge marks lichen-forming fungi (by family or genus heuristic; see methods).

Species Family # Shared by
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What RUNA-1 raises

The 26 shared species in The table above are empirical — same scientific name observed in two or more entities. RUNA-1, the relational-embedding model trained on ~490k typed ecological triples across the network, surfaces additional pairs through geometric proximity in its 128-dimensional space. These are not evidence of shared occurrence — only candidates worth investigating. RUNA-1 v1.4 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20630499

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predicted bridges
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entity pairs touched
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probed species in RUNA vocab

Bridges per entity pair

Bar length = number of RUNA-predicted fungi shared between this pair. Click a bar to filter the table below.

All 55 predicted bridges

Fungus In RUNA neighbour In sim

RUNA-1 produces proximities, not verifications. Strong sim — especially across two well-sampled entities like rondane ↔ amsterdamsebos — means these pairs are ecologically adjacent in the model's geometry. Whether either fungus actually grows in the other entity's territory is an empirical question for fieldwork or another data source.