Fwd: Related to The Overstory

[Ugo Bardi]

Hi everyone,

This piece just appeared in the New York Times--it's a profile of Suzanne Simard, whose work on forest ecology and tree communication appears to be the basis for the character of Patricia Westerfield:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/02/magazine/tree-communication-mycorrhiza.html

The Social Life of Forests - The New York Times As a child, Suzanne Simard often roamed Canada’s old-growth forests with her siblings, building forts from fallen branches, foraging mushrooms and huckleberries and occasionally eating handfuls ... www.nytimes.com

Tom Prugh

[Anastassia Makarieva]

Thanks, Ugo! An interesting article indeed. Prof. Simard also reminded me of Dr. Grace Augustine, one of the key Avatar's characters, the exobiologist who studied communication of plants on a planet where trees ruled.

In our 2004 discussion of local ecological communities we quoted the study of Lerat et al. 2002 about transfer of radioactive carbon between neighboring plants. It was a follow-up to the pioneering studies of Simard and colleagues.

Best wishes,

Anastassia

чт, 3 дек. 2020 г. в 19:46, Ugo Bardi <ugo....@unifi.it>:

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