"It takes decades for clearcut forests to stop emitting more carbon than they sequester, and centuries more to recover the sink strength of the original stands. We don't have decades for these forests to recover from clearcutting. In the hundreds of years it takes for a forest to mature, our planet could warm upwards of five degrees celsius."
"Tracing the movement of radioactive particles between trees, Simard's findings suggested that individual trees were engaged in an ongoing exchange of information and resources with one another through mycorrhizal fungi networks. Trees talk, is how she put it in her TED talk."
Suzanne Simard is a Canadian forestry ecologist and environmental icon known for groundbreaking research on tree communication through mycorrhizal fungal networks. Her 2016 TED talk garnered nearly 6 million views, establishing her as a prominent voice on forest ecology and climate change. Simard's work, conducted through innovative experiments involving radioactive isotopes, revealed that trees engage in ongoing exchanges of information and resources with one another. Her research inspired the character Patricia in Richard Powers' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Overstory. Beyond academia, Simard actively participates in environmental activism, including protests against industrial logging, advocating that clearcut forests require centuries to recover their carbon sequestration capacity.
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