Finding the Mother Tree – A Conversation with Suzanne Simard
Emergence Magazine Podcast
Co-Evolution in Symbiosis
In forestry, which is my field, all of our practices can be traced to try to manage competition so that we create these dominant trees. We've commodified the forest. And what I was observing in the mortality in these forests was these other interactions that are going on in forests and not just competition. It's a complex place with sophisticated interactions between plants and trees and the other organisms. By taking out the plants that they needed to get through, you know, post disturbance and succession, those plants have roles in ecosystems.
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