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Quid pro quo.
Anthropomorphism
the classic prisoner’s dilemma.
Kamloops,
Maple Grove
I had grants and students and had won a teaching award.
Nelson.
My students and I were tracing water and nitrogen and carbon flowing from old Douglas firs to tiny germinants nearby, helping them survive.
the networks in the old-growth forests were far richer and more complex than I’d ever imagined,
in large clear-cuts they were simple and sparse. The larger the clear-cut, it appeared, the more compromised the networks became.
Simile
grant to create a map of the belowground labyrinth in an old-growth forest.
How could we help nurture the young ones without shattering the forest?
a hill slope from creek to crest covered with Douglas fir of all ages.
Smile
Simile anthropomorphism
Simile
Brendan,
10 years after her “wood-wide web” article
Rhizopogon,
whether
Whether
the extent of connectedness.
mycelia
where the soil was parched
Chapter 3
the blood-dark thickets of red osier dogwood.
Simile
If the fire scorched the floor in tandem with a good cone year, a new bunch of seeds germinated.
Ngenious and meticulous
Smile
The fungus was linking the old tree and young seedling.
this old tree was connected to every one of the younger trees regenerated around it.
Kevin,
One tree was linked to forty-seven others, some of them twenty meters away.
2010,
the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
an independent web.
ericoid mycorrhizal fungi
orchid myco...
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a radical—one
Simile - anthropomorphism
Simile anthropomorphism
Hartig net.
emerging radicals
primordial root
cotyledons—primordial leaves—with
The trees spoke of patience,
Anthropomorphism
Simile anthropomorphism
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Hartig net
