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Rowan Hooper met ecologist Suzanne Simard under an oak tree in Kew Gardens, London, to talk about her new book, criticism of her work – and the movie Avatar TO SOME, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard is a pioneer in the tradition of Jane Goodall, Rachel Carson and Lynn Margulis. To others, she has veered too far from what science tells us. In 1997, she published a breakthrough paper showing that trees exchange food and nutrients via an underground fungal network connecting their roots, a system the journal Nature dubbed “the wood wide web”. In 2021, Simard published Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the wisdom and intelligence of the forest. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第3595期 · 2026年5月16日,Rowan Hooper。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。