Science
What if forests have families?
It's connected. Suzanne Simard discovered that the oldest trees in a forest are linked to hundreds of other trees through underground fungal networks. She calls these trees mother trees, and they do something nobody expected: they recognize their own offspring and send them more food.
A mother tree can be connected to hundreds of other trees... she sends her excess carbon through the mycorrhizal network to the understory seedlings.— Suzanne Simard
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The thinker
Forest Ecologist & Researcher
Suzanne Simard is a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia, known for her groundbreaking research on how trees communicate and share resources through underground fungal networks.
Based on How Trees Talk to Each Other — TED Talk, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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