Lost the relatives, the marriage of marriage, and suffering from cancer.

Will the tree speak? Will you chat between trees and trees? Will you communicate?

In people's stereotypes, there is a competitive relationship between trees and trees, competing for the soil, competing for nutrients, and competing for the space to grow up.

However, scientific research has proved that trees will cooperate with each other, and they will chat between them and pass information. They pass their nutrition when they are drought. When they encounter danger, they will send defense signals to their neighbors.

Did you suddenly look at the trees around you?

The lady who is going to introduce today, Susanna Semyard, is a top forest ecologist who studies this issue.

Susanna Semimad, who was born and grew up in the forest, was the first job in a proofer. However, she became the most praised in the field of forest ecology and one of the most inferior scientists.

Her life was twists and turns, and she lost her relatives. She farther away from her lover until her marriage was broken, and she was unfortunately suffering from cancer.

These wounds that are difficult to cure for outsiders, Susanna Simyard has regained her freshmen in another unique way -she dedicated her life to silent forests, and the forest also cured and soothed her. Essence

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She entered the logging industry, but she turned around

West Made has grown with the forest since she was a child, and her family has made a living for generations.

She grows up in the forest, and she often lie on the forest and look up at the crown, which is huge. Her grandfather was amazing and was a logging worker who cut off the cedar in the inland rainforest.

West Made inherited his interest in the forest along his grandfather's footprint.

The first moment she had a sense of irrigation was outside the house by the lake.

Her puppy Jig accidentally slipped into the pit. Her grandfather hurried to dig the soil to rescue the puppy. He was all in the pit, all over the mud.

When he dug the forest ground, West Madd was deeply fascinated by the roots. Under the root of the tree, there is a white mycelium, and under the mycelium, there is a mineral layer of red and yellow.

At that moment, she realized that the roots and soils with different colors were the real basic components of the forest.

West Marid wants to know more, so she studied forest science.

After graduating, West Madrine entered a logging company and became a woman who worked as a logging company.

But soon, she found that she worked with her and had a big man in charge of commercial logging. The degree of cutting forests made people worry.

In her memory, after the grandfather was logging near home, the forest naturally recovered the growth. Perhaps it was because the grandfather only cut a few trees in each place. The nearby cedar, iron and fir were convenient to sow the seeds on the felling on the felling and stayed. At the gap, new plants are easy to connect with the soil.

However, the artificial forests faced in West Madam could not be made again. After the large area was cut, the Yunshan seedlings were yellow and the trunk was slender, and it was difficult to survive.

The area of ​​all the fascinating areas is almost a slaughterhouse, and it is the buried place for trees.

They poisoned and cut off countless poplar and birch, just to have more land, they can grow pine trees and fir with more economic value. Cruel business machines are so unstoppable.

West Made did not see the world she understood when she was a child, but saw a large area of ​​bare land after being cut off.

The complexity of nature no longer exists, and it is replaced by the harsh environment that exists for a long time.

West Made was shocked, and she began to doubt herself: What happened to the little girl who had a nice girl who was eating soil, braiding the tree root, and seeing intricate natural wonders?

"There are beautiful scenery in the forest, layered soil, and secrets hidden under the ground. My childhood was shouting to me: Forest is a complete whole."

West Marid chose to leave the logging industry, instead engaged in academic studies, and conducting research on forest ecology.

There is a huge network underground in the forest

In the laboratory, scientists have found that a pine seedlings will transmit carbon to another seedling.

And West Mard is curious, is the same in the real forest? Will you share nutrition and exchange information between trees and trees?

Other colleagues were dismissive of her thoughts, and the mainstream views at the time believed that trees were still competitive.

"The older generation of forestry scholars asked me, why don't you directly study the growth of forests and yields? I am more interested in interaction between plants, and they think that this kind of subject is too feminine."

But West Made still conducted its own experimental research.

She planted 80 trees in a forest, with a total of three varieties, Citibanus, paper and cedar.

West Marid's experimental tree

She marked the paper birch with radioactive homogeneous carbon 14 in order to track the transmission of photosynthesis products to Citibanus. At the same time, it was marked with stable isotope carbon 13 to track the transmission of photosynthesis to paper and birch.

She wants to observe whether the carbon element is underground, and she can pass to another saplings from one kind of saplings. The experimental results prove that her conjecture is correct.

In the underground of the forest, trees and fungi are mutually beneficial and beneficial. The root of the bacteria forms a "trees" similar to the Internet and human neural networks. The nutrients and moisture required can be passed through it. Essence

The center of Shiwei.com is an ancient and stout mother tree. They connect with powerful power and maintain all the offspring around them.

With the deepening of research, West Mada found that the fungus almost linked every tree in the forest, even including different types of trees. BBC's popular science videos based on Western research.

There will be a "chat" between the tree and the tree, and there will be alarm signal when encountering danger; the tall old tree will take care of the young trees and transmit more resources and nutrition; if a tree is on the verge of death, sometimes it is sometimes It will pass a large amount of carbon to its neighbors.

"Old trees and small trees are centers and nodes, respectively. Through the root fungus, we are connected with a complex model to provide motivation for the regeneration of the entire forest."

In 1997, West Marid and her laboratory team published an important paper in "Nature" to describe the structure of the root network and her mother tree concept.

After the published article of West Made, a highly respected scientist wrote to her that the discovery would "always change people's views on forests."

Today, West Marid is a professor at the Forestry Department of British Columbia University in Canada. She has conducted nearly 30 years of research on the root network of the forest.

For decades, her related research influence and inspiration have inspired many works.

For example, in the movie "Avatar", there is also a huge life tree on the Pandora planet. All the indigenous souls on the planet are connected with the soul of this tree. And this shocking concept is derived from West Mare's research on the "mother tree".

The life tree in "Avatar". Picture source: "Avatar"

There is also the 2019 Pulitzer's novel award -winning work "Tree Language", which is based on her as a prototype that she has shaped the visionary heroine and botanist Patrisha Westford.

At present, the academic community generally believes that she is one of the most rigorous and innovative scientists in the field of plant exchanges and behavior.

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Cancer and mother tree

While conducting research on the mother tree, West Marid went to the hospital because of chest pain, and the results of the diagnosis were breast cancer.

When the doctor's voice came from the microphone, West Madd listened to those who couldn't remember the noun. She thought of those mothers trees, even if they were about to die, they were still covering the wind and rain for other trees, providing nutrients, protecting and taking care of them. they.

West Made thought of her two daughters. They were her most precious treasures. They were so beautiful and vibrant, just like brilliant flowers.

West Mada closed her eyes, and she thought that even her mother's tree could not grow old.

In her experimental forest, there was a embarrassing Citibanian mother tree. The crowns were smashed by the trees cut down next to each other, and the trunk was also scarred by the base material machine that was reversed.

However, in the summer just passed, it grew a lot of balls, so the Black Tungshan bird liked it very much and jumped around on its branches.

British Columbia Province has a hundred -year -old Citian pine mother tree in the rainforest of the southern coastal province. Picture source: "Song of Forest"

West Made admired its determination to persist, and it was still taking care of its children despite being hit. So she decided to undergo breast resection and undergo continuous treatment.

While fighting with cancer, West Madae also remembers a new question in research: Can the mother tree distinguish which saplings are their own children, and which ones are it?

People usually think that human and animals will have the phenomenon of kinship, can this also happen to trees?

West Made and their research team immediately put into this experiment again. Six months later, they came to the experimental forest and found that many of the sapters who had a close relationship were alive, but those who had no relationship were dead.

Although the experiment proves that Citibuson's mother tree can recognize her children, West Madd thinks that no matter what kind of tree species, the mother tree should prefer her offspring.

At the same time, unfortunately, the cancer cells in West Mare have spread to lymph nodes. After breast resection, she had to continue chemotherapy.

Among the chemotherapy drugs, there is a kind of paclitaxel, which is taken from the formation layer of purple shirts. Purple shirt is a short shrub, which grows under the old cedar, maple and Citi pine.

After the last chemotherapy, West Madd brought his two daughters to a forest to find palag.

"My medicine is made of these palaces." West Mare and his daughters held the rough trunk of the purple shirt in their arms.

"I invite them to take care of my daughter, just like taking care of me. In return, I promised to protect them, study them, and discover the unknown treasure."

In 2015, West Made launched a new project -the mother tree project. At that time, she had just got rid of cancer and regained her new life.

"This is the biggest experiment I have done. The principle of guidance is to retain the mother tree and maintain various connections in the forest to maintain the renewableness of the forest, especially in the case of climate change."

West Marid's research on forests continues, and her life experience has long been inseparable from the forest.

Not only academic research, the forest also taught her to treat her life.

As a result, West Made wrote a "Song of the Forest", which tells his unique life journey in this book.

She is the daughter of the forest. From a logging worker to a big coffee of forest ecology, she grows tough in discrimination and suppression;

She is a mother and has two cute daughters. Like many women in the workplace, she has been deeply caught in a situation where family and work are in goodblement;

She had lost her relatives, her family broke up, and she suffered from cancer. The wisdom of the forest cured her and made her a new life.This book will completely change the way you look at trees, and also inspire humans' reflection on themselves, as well as cherishment of interpersonal relationships such as affection and love.

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