How Trees Talk to Each Other (Suzanne Simard, PhD)
Suzanne Simard is a professor in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia. She is best known for her research on the underground networks of forests characterized by fungi and roots. Simard also formally-identified the hub tree, or “mother tree”. Mother trees are the largest in forests, they support seedlings by infecting them with fungi and supplying them with nutrients. Considered by many to be the world’s leading forest ecologist, Dr. Simard’s first book Finding the Mother Tree, will be released on June 21, 2022, the Summer Solstice.
“They’re so much like us, we live in societies.” (Suzanne Simarad on Mother Trees.)
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Cover photo by Bill Metcalfe. Visit SuzanneSimard.com. These videos shared as part of our 2022 collection, Restoring Connective Tissue.
