Suzanne Simard

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Suzanne Simard (born 1960) is a Canadian forestry scientist and conservationist who is best known for her research on forest ecology and plant intelligence. Simard is a Professor in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia. After growing up in the Monashee Mountains, British Columbia, she received her PhD in Forest Sciences at Oregon State University. Prior to working at the University of British Columbia, Simard worked as a research scientist at the British Columbia Ministry of Forests. Simard is known for the research she conducted on the underground networks of forests characterized by fungi and roots. She studies how these fungi and roots facilitate communication and interaction between trees and plants of an ecosystem. Within the communication between trees and plants is the exchange of carbon, water, nutrients and defense signals between trees. Simard is also a leader of TerreWEB, an initiative set to train graduate students and post...

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