Suzanne Simard: How Do Trees Collaborate?
Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode TED Radio Wow-er.
Ecologist Suzanne Simard shares how she discovered that trees use underground fungal networks to communicate and share resources, uprooting the idea that nature constantly competes for survival.
About Suzanne Simard
is a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia. Her work demonstrated that these complex, symbiotic networks in our forests mimic our own neural and social networks. She has
