Home Environment Green News

Trees Communicate With Each Other Through Underground Fungi

211
0

Suzanne Simard, a professor at the University of British Columbia, reveals the latest findings in the realm of forestry. By studying the ecosystems in a forest, she and her team realized that trees actually communicate between them via underground fungi.

Well, that’s not the sort of communication you’d imagine from humans, but rather a transfer of matter (hence energy) between mother-trees and smaller trees, thus contributing to the diversity of the natural environment to resist illnesses and attacks from bugs or plagues (not humans).

Watch the wonderful video and share your thoughts in the comments section below the article:

[via treehugger]

(Visited 240 times, 1 visits today)

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.