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Do Trees Communicate?

Thanks to Unslave Me

In this real-life model of forest resilience

and regeneration, University of British

Columbia Professor Suzanne Simard

shows that all trees in a forest ecosystem

are interconnected, with the largest,

oldest, "mother trees" serving as hubs.

Networks of mycorrhizal fungal mycelium

have recently been discovered by Professor

Suzanne Simard and her graduate students

to connect the roots of trees and facilitate

the sharing of resources in Douglas-fir

forests of interior British Columbia, thereby

bolstering their resilience against disturbance

or stress and facilitating the establishment

of new regeneration.

The underground exchange of nutrients

increases the survival of younger trees

linked into the network of old trees.

Amazingly, we find that in a forest, 1+1 equals

more than 2.

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