Amazingly still-alive stump points to a new understanding of trees

Do trees always exist as single organisms, or can each tree also serve as part of a linked "superorganism?" A recent finding in New Zealand suggests the latter, as a tree stump there has apparently remained alive by joining roots with its neighbors.

.. Continue Reading Amazingly still-alive stump points to a new understanding of trees

Category: Biology

Tags:

• Auckland University of Technology
• Ecology
• Forest
• Tree

from New Atlas (Gizmag) https://ift.tt/2Ok400M