How trees talk to each other

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

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

Childhood story

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

The research

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.

How trees communicate?

Experiment #2
They grew mother trees with kin and stranger's seedlings. And it 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.

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.

Useful expressions