The Social Life of Forests

Read the full New York Times Magazine
article here.

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“By analyzing the DNA in root
tips and tracing the movement of molecules through underground conduits,
Simard has discovered that fungal threads link nearly every tree in a forest
— even trees of different species. Carbon, water, nutrients, alarm signals
and hormones can pass from tree to tree through these subterranean
circuits.”