Nature's internet: how trees talk to each other in a healthy forest | Suzanne Simard | TEDxSeattle

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Shared fungal networks act like a public immunization system, with birch-associated bacteria helping protect connected fir trees.
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When an understory Douglas fir is shaded, a birch tree can send it about 10 percent of its carbon.
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Mother trees recognize kin and send more carbon to related seedlings, especially when the mother tree is injured.
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Scientists found traces of salmon-derived nitrogen preserved in tree rings for centuries.
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When Douglas fir faces stress or disease, it sends warning signals that help neighboring trees strengthen their defenses.
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Salmon nourish forests, forests support rivers, and rivers feed a cycle connecting salmon, oceans, bears, wolves, trees, and people.
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Invisible human connections can sustain people through severe illness, just as forest networks sustain trees.
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Carbon moving through fungal networks increases understory seedlings’ survival, growth, and health.
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Professional intimidation did not invalidate sound science. Challenging the status quo requires standing by rigorous evidence.
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Nature is not a shopping mall. Abandoning the resource-market mindset can change the future’s trajectory.
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Ecological recovery starts when humans join the network, listen to other creatures, and enter the conversation beneath our feet.
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Invisible ecological connections are real, powerful, and crucial to the well-being of forests and people.
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We are not separate from nature or one another. Every action ripples through the living web.

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