En busca del Árbol Madre

Suzanne Simard, a world expert in forest ecology, introduces us in this book to the secret life of trees and reveals a fascinating fact: trees are not simply a source of wood, but belong to a complex interdependent life circuit. In the forest, trees behave as social and cooperative creatures connected through underground networks through which their vitality and vulnerabilities are communicated, and they have communal lives not unlike ours. In a clear and accessible style, the author explains how trees have evolved over hundreds of years: they perceive each other, learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors and remember the past. Trees, Simard reveals, can make decisions about the future, warn of dangers and mount defenses, and compete and cooperate with each other with sophistication; behaviors all of them attributed to human intelligence and which are the essence of civil societies. But Simard's most relevant discovery is the existence of the Tree Mothers: the mysterious and powerful forces that from the center of the forest connect and sustain all those around them.