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97. How Smart Is a Forest?

People I (Mostly) Admire

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How Do You Know if Birch and Fir Are Connecting?

CNN's John Sutter talks with David Reed about his research into the role of fungi in forest succession. He says he wanted to know if birch and fir were passing carbon or other nutrients back and forth, was it just through the soil? Or could it be through the fungi that might be linking them together? "I let them grow for a year by themselves out there in the forest"

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