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Beneath the forest floor, trees are having conversations. Not with words, but through a web of fungal threads called mycorrhizal networks. Scientists sometimes call it the "wood wide web." Here is how it works. The thin white threads of fungi wrap around and even grow inside tree roots. The fungi get sugar from the trees. In return, the trees get water and nutrients that the fungi pull from the soil. But something more surprising happens too. Through these fungal connections, trees share resources with each other. A tall tree with plenty of sunlight will send carbon to a smaller tree growing in the shade. Mother trees, the oldest and largest in a forest, feed their seedlings through underground networks. When a tree is sick or dying, it sometimes dumps its resources into the network for its neighbors to use. The forest is not a collection of individuals competing for light. It is a community, quietly cooperating underground, in ways we are only beginning to understand.
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