German Forest Ranger Finds That Trees Have Social Networks Too

Posted by on Jul 26, 2016 @ 7:37 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: July 26, 2016

In the deep stillness of a forest in winter, the sound of footsteps on a carpet of leaves died away. Peter Wohlleben had found what he was looking for: a pair of towering beeches. “These trees are friends,” he said, craning his neck to look at the leafless crowns, black against a gray sky. “You see how the thick branches point away from each other? That’s so they don’t...

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