Project Collaborator
Suzanne Simard
Biography
Suzanne Simard is a forest ecologist working on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence. She is known for her work on how trees interact and communicate using below-ground fungal networks, which has led to the recognition that forests have hub trees, or Mother Trees, that play an important role in the flow of information and resources in a forest. Her current research investigates how these complex relationships contribute to forest resiliency, adaptability and recovery and has far-reaching implications for how to manage and heal forests from human impacts, including climate change. Simard has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and reached wide audiences through talks, documentaries, and her book Finding the Mother Tree. Simard is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia. She collaborates with the Awi’nakola Foundation through The Mother Tree Project.
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