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684<h2>Trees are connected</h2>
685<p>Through their research, <a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-75596-0_10">Dr. Simard and others have discovered that trees are connected</a> below-ground via a vast fungal network.</p>
686<p>Trees form <a href="https://mothertreeproject.org/glossary#mycorrhizae" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted green; text-decoration: none;">mycorrhizae</a> (literally meaning “fungus-root”), which are symbiotic relationships between trees and fungi. These mycorrhizal fungi have many branching threads (called <a href="https://mothertreeproject.org/glossary#mycellium" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted green; text-decoration: none;">mycelium</a>) that grow out from the root tip of a tree and connect with the roots of other trees and plants to form a <a href="https://mothertreeproject.org/glossary#mycorrhizal-network" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted green; text-decoration: none;">mycorrhizal network</a>. The <a href="https://mothertreeproject.org/glossary#mycellium" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted green; text-decoration: none;">mycelium</a> spans vast areas connecting trees and plants across a forest in an expansive underground network.</p>
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844<p>This fungal highway is a direct way to communicate, like the internet or telephone lines. This network was coined the <a href="https://mothertreeproject.org/glossary#wood-wide-web" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted green; text-decoration: none;">“Wood Wide Web”</a> in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/41557">Dr. Simard’s 1997 paper</a> published in the scientific journal <em>Nature</em>.</p>
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