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Suzanne Simard: Mother Trees and the Social Forest

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The Effect of Leaving Mother Trees on Regeneration

Trees occupy different niches in the soil. If you start taking species away, you start basically truncating the ability of the ecosystem to acquire resources and be productive. Leaving these mother trees isn't just important for density, it's important for the diversity of the species coming back. In a really favorable environments where it's wet and cool, that we get a lot of regeneration as it gets drier. So in harsher environments, either hot and dry or cold and dry, regeneration is a lot more difficult. Those ecosystems need a lot more protection.

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