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The Secret Language of Trees



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Narrator/Writer: Stephanie Sammann
Writer: Lorraine Boissoneault
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References:

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/how-many-tree-species-are-there-more-you-can-shake-stick-new-database-reveals
[2] https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaurs-ancient-fossils/extinction/mass-extinction
[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15503185/
[4] https://www.britannica.com/science/fungus/Mycorrhiza
[5] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/photosynthate
[6] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28920-x
[7] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2434626?seq=1
[8] https://www.nature.com/articles/41557
[9] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0013324
[10] https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_each_other?language=en
[11] https://mothertreeproject.org/about-mother-trees-in-the-forest/
[12] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.13785