How trees talk to each other

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Trees are
Childhood story
Early career
The research
Experiment #1
Experiment #2
Advices
Useful expressions

Trees are Childhood story Early career The research Experiment #1 Experiment #2 Advices Useful expressions

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the foundation of forests

world of infinite biological pathways

pathways connect trees and

the foundation of forests world of infinite biological pathways pathways connect trees
allow them to communicate and to behave as a single organism

sort of intelligence

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Childhood story

Childhood story

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Early career

Studied forestry
Worked alongside the powerful people in charge

Early career Studied forestry Worked alongside the powerful people in charge of
of the commercial harvest
Went back to school

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The research

The research

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The experiment

She injected carbon-14, the radioactive gas, into the bag of

The experiment She injected carbon-14, the radioactive gas, into the bag of
birch.
And then for fir, she injected the stable isotope carbon-13.

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How trees communicate?

How trees communicate?

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Experiment #2

They grew mother trees with kin and stranger's seedlings. And it

Experiment #2 They grew mother trees with kin and stranger's seedlings. And
turns out they do recognize their kin.
Mother trees colonize their kin with bigger mycorrhizal networks. They send them more carbon below ground. They even reduce their own root competition to make elbow room for their kids. When mother trees are injured or dying, they also send messages of wisdom on to the next generation of seedlings.

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ADVICES

First, we all need to get out in the forest.
To

ADVICES First, we all need to get out in the forest. To
save our old-growth forests.
We do cut, we need to save the legacies
To regenerate our forests with a diversity of species and genotypes and structures by planting and allowing natural regeneration.

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Useful expressions

Useful expressions