the wood wide web
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theconversation.com : A new book, The Hidden Life of Trees, claims that trees talk to one another. But is this really the case? The simple answer is that plants certainly exchange information with one another and other organisms such as insects...
read on >>> How trees communicate via a Wood Wide Web
thekidsshouldseethis.com : Trees secretly talk to each other underground. They’re passing information and resources to and from each other through a network of fungi, a mat of long, thin filaments that connect an estimated 90% of land plants...
read on >>> The Wood Wide Web: How trees secretly talk to and share with ...
brightvibes.com : Imagine an information superhighway that speeds up interactions between a large, diverse population of individuals, allowing individuals who may be widely separated to communicate and help each other out. When you walk in the woods, this is all happening beneath your feet...
read on >>> Discover how trees secretly talk to each other using the "Wood ...
bbc.com : Research has shown that beneath every forest and wood there is a complex underground web of roots, fungi and bacteria helping to connect trees and plants to one another...
read on >>> Wood wide web: Trees' social networks are mapped
smithsonianmag.com : I'm walking in the Eifel Mountains in western Germany, through cathedral-like groves of oak and beech, and there’s a strange unmoored feeling of entering a fairy tale. The trees have become vibrantly alive and charged with wonder. They’re communicating with one another, for starters. They’re involved in tremendous struggles and death-defying dramas. To reach enormousness, they depend on a complicated web of relationships, alliances and kinship networks...
read on >>> Do Trees Talk to Each Other?
sciencemag.org : Trees, from the mighty redwoods to slender dogwoods, would be nothing without their microbial sidekicks. Millions of species of fungi and bacteria swap nutrients between soil and the roots of trees, forming a vast, interconnected web of organisms throughout the woods...
read on >>> ‘Wood wide web’—the underground network of microbes that connects trees—mapped for first time
