Finding the Mother Tree
Finding the Mother Tree is a book by the Canadian forest ecologist Suzanne Simard. It has been reviewed in the New York Times,[1] the Guardian,[2] the Washington Post,[3] the Wall Street Journal,[4] among others.
The premise of the non-fiction book asserts that a forest, and forest ecology, is interdependent with fungi mycelium. Trees and other plants exchange sugars through their respective root and mycelial structures to share and trade micronutrients with fungi in the soil. Simard presents her research that fungi physically and chemically connect with the root systems of multiple trees, across species, to create micronutrient pipelines of exchange within a forest community to share these nutrients as well as other molecules to “challenge the prevailing theory that cooperation is of lesser importance than competition in evolution and ecology.”[4]
Simard argues that healthy forests center on a matriarch tree that acts as a nexus of nutrient distribution that shares these nutrients among other trees of the same or different ages and species that are chemically and physically linked together by an expansive fungal network.[1]
References
- ^ a b Slaught, Jonathan C. (3 May 2021). "The Woman Who Looked at a Forest and Saw a Community". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ Francis-Baker, Tiffany (8 May 2021). "Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard review – a journey of passion and introspection". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ Brown, Kate (21 May 2021). "A scientist's career in communion with trees". The Washington Post. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ a b Bone, Eugenia (7 May 2021). "BOOKSHELF 'Finding the Mother Tree' Review: Seeing the Forest". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
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