
Finding the Mother Tree – a conversation with Suzanne Simard
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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What Is a Mother Tree?
The mother tree is a complex system or a complex network, where you have hubs or big trees that are the most highly connected. And so these old s were really nurturing the the young seedlings coming up around them. So we did a bunch of elegant experiments a showing this and how mother trees is called kin recognition. They can recognize which are their kin, and they send resources, more resources, to thoseKin seedlings to insure that ther their survival is good. That's why we call them mother trees. It's not just like the cones and the se cones are in the same trees; it's an important term because everybody has a mother. Everybody has a father too, but when
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