Due to their ability to grow in complex environments, fungi are present in most natural ecosystems. They are the primary decomposers of litter in forests (Gilbertson, 2008) and their central role in nutrient cycles is the redistribution and reutilization of nutrients over long distances. For these reasons many efforts have been spent to fully comprehend the processes steering fungal growth and the mathematics behind it in order to build fungal growth models.Most of these models, however, are unable to fully grasp the dynamics of fungal growth. Furthermore, in these models growth is often confined to a lattice, and therefore they cannot realistically represent the irregular nature of fungi (Boswell, 2008; Fuhr, 2011).
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