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Serious question: how could it not?

Surely the contribution is cataloging and detailing information about tree microbiomes and not proving that they aren't all identical?

The sheer volume of life here is incredible. I already know trees to be stewards of life on earth but wasn't aware they had complex inner ecosystems themselves.
What do we call the funding that goes into discovering something that is already known or can be easily inferred or that has no consequences to life on Earth (stuff about things outside of our galaxy)?
Yeah, we need a word for that. I would mildly disagree with you on the latter, noting ventured nothing gained.
Entangled life by Merlin Sheldrake shows how, amongst many other amazing facts, tightly integrated mushrooms and trees are. Everything about this is amazing to me.
Trees(softwoods) have greater genetic variability between indivuals of the same species than humans, which made prosecuting "log jacking" much easier, as a simple chip could be taken from each log at a mill or on a truck and matched to stumps of trees taken illegaly. The great variability amongst indivuals makes genetic matching, fast and cheap.

This is relevant to the discussion as it poses the idea that greater variability in the biomes of indivual trees could be partly liked to greater genetic variability of the trees themselves. If so, the value of intact large forests is then increased, and may point to non linear decreases in other forsest species.

Richard Powers' novel "The Overstory" takes this premise and wraps a wonderfully entertaining and fact-suffused novel around it. Highly recommended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overstory

I guessed this!!!!

I know insects also have their own microbiomes

New business idea- probiotics for plants! (Why not, there are already mycorrhizal fertilizers)