Mycorrhizal network

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In forests, trees' roots connect underground to each other with the facilitation of vast networks of fungi that facilitate mycorrhiza, or tree-fungi symbiosis. Trees use the networks to share nutrients and information with each other. The fungi benefit by taking some of the carbon-rich sugars the trees generate in photosynthesis. New York Times science journalist Ferris Jabr comments that the process displays an "interspecies selflessness of trees, however — a practice that verges on socialism."[1]

  1. Ferris Jabr, "The Social Life of Forests," New York Times, 2 December 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/02/magazine/tree-communication-mycorrhiza.html.