JuneSim63 💚Mar 15

"She says that while the scientific community has often had a “harder time” absorbing her ideas, her work aligns with indigenous wisdom on how forests work and tends to make intuitive sense to lay people, too"

#Forests #Trees #WoodWideWeb #Ecology #Biodiversity

‘My ideas are a little revolutionary’: ecologist Suzanne Simard on intelligent forests, the climate and her critics | Trees and forests | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/14/my-ideas-are-a-little-revolutionary-ecologist-suzanne-simard-on-intelligent-forests-the-climate-and-her-critics

‘My ideas are a little revolutionary’: ecologist Suzanne Simard on intelligent forests, the climate and her critics

Her research popularised the idea of the wood wide web, but the scientific backlash was brutal. As the author of The Mother Tree returns to the forest in a new book, she discusses her battle to reimagine our relationship with nature

The Guardian
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@junesim63 The wood wide web, not as wide as it seems : this idea of interconnecting trees, based on Suzanne Simard's papers and then largely publicised by Peter Wohlleben in his book "The Hidden Life of Trees", is largely based on #CitationBias towards positive effects , as this very nice review paper here shows : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01986-1
#ForestEcology #Forests
Positive citation bias and overinterpreted results lead to misinformation on common mycorrhizal networks in forests - Nature Ecology & Evolution

In this Perspective, Karst et al. discuss how both the popular media and scientific literature have inflated the extent of evidence for various roles of mycorrhizal fungal networks in forests.

Nature
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