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Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees - Issue 77: Underworlds - Nautilus
"We know old trees change their behavior to give advantages to their own kin. A parent tree will kill off its own offspring if they’re not in a good place to grow."
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Piedmont area NJ USA
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Jack, I have been reading the book The Hidden Life of Trees; What They Feel, How They Communicate : Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (2016). The article you referenced falls right in with the whole communication system of trees and plants.
As I understand it at this point this communication and helping happens in forests when trees are grouped naturally and not in commercial enterprises from trees that have been potted or burlaped which disturbs their roots. I also read 4% of street trees die from street light exposure. Fascinating subject. |
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You might like this presentation by Suzanne Simard on the subject and her experiments. https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_si...age=en#t-14188 some trees don't share resources, her video says birch and fir share, but cedar doesn't. I find that curious and wonder what trees will create resilliant communties in urban/suburban settings, and which ones are selfish.
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I finally got around to watching, listening to, the Suzanne Simard TED talk. It was fascinating and she was so up beat in her presentation I hope everyone gets to hear it.
Thanks Skip. Jack, I too wonder why this underground network isn't more widely discussed. It is a wonderful new frontier discovered right under our feet, what can be more interesting? We are literally standing on a whole new world! |
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I am amazed at the ways nature communicates.
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