the idea of talking trees has been
capturing the human imagination for
generations my bark is worse than my
bite okay so maybe they don’t talk to us
but it turns out trees can talk to each
other Jesus speaking to each other but
that does beg the question what do trees
have to talk about and can we learn to
speak their language what do trees have
to talk about underneath the soil a vast
and interconnected network of life links
the trees through their root systems but
they can’t talk to each other without
help the whole process starts with hub
trees the oldest and tallest tree is in
the forest sub trees have greater access
to sunlight and through the process of
photosynthesis end up producing more
sugar than they actually need
underground fungi need sugar to survive
most of their bodies are made out of a
mass of threads called mycelium they
grow within the root system of trees to
absorb the excess sugars
in return the mycelium provides the tree
with the nutrients it needs from the
soil this symbiotic relationship is
known as micro raisa which stems from
the Greek words for fungus and root
these tree fungi relationships connect
the trees in the forest together forming
an underground communication network to
and even send warning signals when under
threat so how many trees are really
talking to each other to get a better
picture of these forest relationships
the team of researchers use DNA analysis
to map a fungal Network in a patch of
Canadian forest remarkably they found
that one tree was connected to 47 other
trees their models also showed that when
hug trees were removed it would cause
more connections to be lost than if
studying these kinds of underground
exchanges will play a vital role in
creating stronger more resilient forests
for the future so even though we might
not be able to talk to trees at least we
can still keep trying to understand
their language who knows what they might
say
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you [Music]
capturing the human imagination for
generations my bark is worse than my
bite okay so maybe they don’t talk to us
but it turns out trees can talk to each
other Jesus speaking to each other but
that does beg the question what do trees
have to talk about and can we learn to
speak their language what do trees have
to talk about underneath the soil a vast
and interconnected network of life links
the trees through their root systems but
they can’t talk to each other without
help the whole process starts with hub
trees the oldest and tallest tree is in
the forest sub trees have greater access
to sunlight and through the process of
photosynthesis end up producing more
sugar than they actually need
underground fungi need sugar to survive
most of their bodies are made out of a
mass of threads called mycelium they
grow within the root system of trees to
absorb the excess sugars
in return the mycelium provides the tree
with the nutrients it needs from the
soil this symbiotic relationship is
known as micro raisa which stems from
the Greek words for fungus and root
these tree fungi relationships connect
the trees in the forest together forming
an underground communication network to
and even send warning signals when under
threat so how many trees are really
talking to each other to get a better
picture of these forest relationships
the team of researchers use DNA analysis
to map a fungal Network in a patch of
Canadian forest remarkably they found
that one tree was connected to 47 other
trees their models also showed that when
hug trees were removed it would cause
more connections to be lost than if
studying these kinds of underground
exchanges will play a vital role in
creating stronger more resilient forests
for the future so even though we might
not be able to talk to trees at least we
can still keep trying to understand
their language who knows what they might
say
[Music]
you [Music]
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