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Trees can't talk — or can they? Ecologist Suzanne Simard says tree communicate with each other in a unique way.
Trees can’t talk — or can they? Ecologist Suzanne Simard says tree communicate with each other in a unique way. [NPR]

How Do Trees Collaborate?

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Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode Networks

About Suzanne Simard’s TED Talk

Ecologist Suzanne Simard shares how she discovered that trees use underground fungi networks to communicate and share resources, uprooting the idea that nature constantly competes for survival.

About Suzanne Simard

Suzanne Simard is a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia. Her work demonstrated that these complex, symbiotic networks in our forests mimic our own neural and social networks. She has thirty years of experience studying the forests of Canada.

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