{"id":75018,"date":"2022-08-07T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=75018"},"modified":"2022-08-15T14:03:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T18:03:47","slug":"suzanne-simard-mother-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/suzanne-simard-mother-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzanne Simard&#8217;s Mother Tree\u2014Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is Suzanne Simard&#8217;s &#8220;Mother Tree&#8221; concept? What do Mother Trees do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ecologist Suzanne Simard explains in her book <em>Finding the Mother Tree<\/em> that trees in a forest are interconnected. Mother Trees connect to many of the other trees and take care of their communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read below for an explanation of Suzanne Simard&#8217;s Mother Tree concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-simard-s-academic-research\"><strong>Simard\u2019s Academic Research<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Simard\u2019s research throughout the 1990s on these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/cooperative-relationships\/\">cooperative relationships<\/a> in forests would ultimately take her from the Forest Service to academia, where she became a researcher and professor at the University of British Columbia in 2002. Along with her graduate students, she began a systematic study of the complex <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/underground-fungal-network\/\">underground fungal networks<\/a> to understand the dynamic at work and how much of the resource sharing might be intentional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, we\u2019ll discuss Suzanne Simard&#8217;s Mother Tree findings, how this concept works to explain the relationships between trees, and the crucial importance of old-growth trees. Some of her key findings in this area are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Trees don\u2019t just transfer nutrients back and forth in a linear relationship; they\u2019re intertwined in a complex network, with older ones (Mother Trees) sustaining younger ones.<\/li><li>Resource sharing is selective, with trees having the capability to \u201cdecide\u201d when, with whom, and how much to share.<\/li><li>Mother Trees give preference to their own offspring.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-mother-trees-according-to-suzanne-simard\"><strong>Mother Trees<\/strong>, According to Suzanne Simard<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Simard came to discover that trees are intertwined via fungus in a complex resource-sharing network, with the older ones being \u201chubs\u201d and the smaller ones \u201cnodes.\u201d She compares this to an internet satellite system, which she refers to as the \u201cwood-wide web,\u201d with the hub trees dubbed \u201cMother Trees.\u201d<strong> Mother Trees are the oldest and largest trees in the forest and are linked to the greatest number of other trees.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simard found that <strong>although Mother Trees send nutrients to their whole interconnected community, they recognize and favor their own offspring<\/strong>. In experiments where older trees were planted with seedlings that were their own offspring and others that were unrelated, she determined that the Mother Trees transferred more nutrients to their offspring. It was this realization that the trees were taking care of their \u201cchildren\u201d that inspired Simard\u2019s coining of the phrase \u201cMother Trees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another notable discovery Simard made is that when a Mother Tree is stressed and facing uncertainty (from disease, dehydration, or lack of nutrients) it will increase the number of nutrients it transfers to its kin. She says that <strong>when one of these old trees is dying, it will release all of its nutrients and energy at the end of its life to the next generation<\/strong>, just as humans pass on their resources to their children.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of these findings, according to Simard, provide evidence that the transfer of nutrients isn&#8217;t simply a byproduct of the fungi attaching to multiple trees. The trees transfer nutrients selectively in different amounts, at different rates, and at different times, with more going to their kin than to strangers. So, <strong>Mother Trees favor their offspring and kin, she says, but they also take care of the whole community<\/strong>, because they \u201cknow\u201d that it\u2019s also essential to their offspring&#8217;s health. A healthy community and ecosystem is the best place to ensure one\u2019s offspring will grow up healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Public Response to the Mother Tree Concept<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The concept of the Mother Tree has captured mainstream media attention and the public imagination. In response to this attention, in 2015 Simard created the website <a href=\"https:\/\/mothertreeproject.org\/\">The Mother Tree Project<\/a>, an online hub for research, news, and media coverage on the topic, including a periodic newsletter, and links to related resources.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The concept of Mother Trees has influenced popular culture as well. In his 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel <a href=\"https:\/\/wwnorton.com\/books\/9780393356687\"><em>The Overstory<\/em><\/a>, Richard Powers used Simard\u2019s life and her findings about Mother Trees as the basis for a plotline. Even more well-known is <a href=\"https:\/\/fantasticfungi.com\/the-mush-room\/avatar-and-the-real-life-wood-wide-web\/\">James Cameron\u2019s movie <em>Avatar<\/em>, which used the Mother Tree concept as the basis for the \u201cHometree,\u201d<\/a> an ancient and enormous tree that sustained the life and connected the souls of the entire alien Na\u2019vi tribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Suzanne Simard&#8217;s &#8220;Mother Tree&#8221; concept? What do Mother Trees do? Ecologist Suzanne Simard explains in her book Finding the Mother Tree that trees in a forest are interconnected. Mother Trees connect to many of the other trees and take care of their communities. 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