"Trees are talking and sending a complex social life," experts, can we understand the words of trees?

bySebastian Unrau

Many people have thought that "trees compete for survival seeking light and places", but with recent studies trees have a complex social life consisting of hubs and networks , I understand that they communicate with each other and cooperate and live. What kind of "words" used by trees, how can humans understand? Multiple scientists and experts explain it.

A biologist believes that trees speak a language we can learn - Quartz
https://qz.com/1116991/a-biologist-believes-that-trees-speak-a-language-we-can-learn/


It has been thought that only a limited number of living things speak the language, but in recent years "Trees are conducting conversation, human beings can learn the words" Claims have come to be claimed by biologists and ecologists. For example, "Micro Forest: Life, Evolution, Earth Talked by 1 m 2 Native Forest"Author and biologist David George Haskell said," Tree network connections require communication and words, and to understand nature's networks listen to the trees of the trees first I need it. "

Although the concept as described above is difficult to understand for people born and raised in urban areas, according to Mr. Haskell, the characteristics of the network of nature and living things are communicated to the Wolani tribe living in Ecuador · Amazon The idea that it is common is a matter of course. Therefore, it seems that the relationship between the trees and the surrounding things is also reflected in the words of the Wolani tribes.

For example, many people express themselves as "tree of seibo" when seeing "tree of seibo", but the Wolani tribe does not use the word "seibo's tree is dying". When expressing about trees, they use the word "seibo tree covered with that ivy", "the tree with black mushrooms and algae many", and there is no mere wording "seibo tree". Since there is no individual "name of species" and there is no need to call the name without ecological background, such as relating to the surrounding vegetation, linguists will have trouble translating the words of the Wolani tribe about. In this way, the Wolani tribe recognizes that trees are closely related to surrounding humans and other creatures as living things "The tree shouts when it is cut" "If things hurt it is not good for mankind We can naturally accept the idea that many of us will deny "happens.

In addition, Suzanne Shimade, an ecologist who has been studying forests for thirty years also accepts the concept of "trees have languages" as a matter of course.

In June 2016 Mr. Shimadu appeared on TED Talk and talked about conversations of trees, and 250,000 movies on YouTube,TED TalkIt is played 2.5 million times on the official website of. It is possible to see the content of the presentation with Japanese subtitles from the following movies.

How trees talk to each other | Suzanne Simard - YouTube


Mr. Simado is Canada ·British ColumbiaI grew up in the forest, studied forestry at university, and after graduating I worked in the logging industry. However, since I felt resistance to logging down trees, I returned to college and started research on trees of trees. While teaching ecology at the University of British Columbia as of 2017, we are doing research on the contents that "trees make fungal networks under the ground and have mutual communication and influence".

Mr. Simad's research revealed that the roots of trees had a unique structureMycorrhizaThere are symbiotic symbiotic that the communication is taken not only among the same kind of trees but also between different trees by forming a network by this mycorrhiza. Scientifically speaking, Mr. Shimado said the trees are "talking" with carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, water, defense signals, allelic substances, hormones etc. as words. It is obvious that the trees compete for survival, but in addition to competition "Would you like to help?" "Can you share a little carbon? Someone covered me with a cloth and it was shady There is also cooperation like "I am there."

bymali maeder

And there is a "mother tree" to be a hub in the aggregate of trees, and forests form a complex system by hub and network. Just like mammalian mothers, "Mother Tree" places children under their own protection, spreads mycelial networks and sends a lot of carbon to their children underground. Also, I make places where children can extend their roots so that my roots do not spread too much. And if this "Mother Tree" suffers a pain for some reason, the forest will not be able to return. The complicated system of the forest itself collapses.

Mr. Shimado said in a movie, "I want you to change the way of thinking about the forest.The bottom of the ground is in another world, connecting the trees, enabling communication, activating the forest like a single organism It is like an organism with intelligence. "

Forestry science expert and global bestseller "Unknown life of trees: Voice of the forest heard by the forestry officerMr. Peter Woolleben, who is managing the old German hippopotamus forest, noticed the same thing as Mr. Shimado and others.The Guardian's interviewAccording to Mr. Vaileben also noticed that trees are sending a complex social life by managing the forest that lasts more than 500 years. As I learned that trees are sending sugar solution to the next tree through the roots, "I learned that" trees compete with each other seeking light and space ", but I see the opposite situation Trees are trying to keep members of the community alive. "

The forest is an important element for a number of problems, such as securing food, providing a place to live, giving clean water and air, creating diversity, eradicating poverty and slowing climate change. Mr. Haskell calls trees as 'philosophers of ecology' and showed the idea that people should listen to the communication managing complex networks and the conversation of trees that are gurus of ties.

Historically, literature and music reflect whispers of pine trees, the sounds of branches falling down, the irritation of trees, etc. Many artists do not use the word "trees of the trees" at a fundamental level I have understood the conversation of trees. It is possible for us to understand the language of trees, and if we can understand it, we should be able to learn from 'trees' how to make seeds prosperous on earth without moving from where they are.