![]() ![]() Wohlleben confronts the perception that fast-growing young trees are healthier than slow growing ones and demonstrates that slow growth helps to ensure long term health. He also examines how young trees grow and reports that, despite producing millions of seeds throughout its lifetime, each adult tree will only produce one tree offspring that survives to adulthood. ![]() Wohlleben then analyzes different reproductive strategies and discusses the particularities of wind pollination, as well as seed and nut production. The author explains that trees communicate through electrical, visual, and olfactory means, and examines how trees react to pests by releasing defensive compounds through their leaves. These root and fungal networks are now referred to by scientists as the “wood wide web,” which trees can use to share water and nutrients with neighbor trees of the same species. Suzanne Simard for discovering that trees can communicate with each other because their root systems are connected by networks of beneficial fungi. Wohlleben begins The Hidden Life of Trees by exploring trees’ ability to form social networks. ![]()
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