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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The planet’s lungs: Trees are essential for the global water and carbon dioxide cycles today.
Chapter 3: These roots run deep: Trees interact with the forest soil in many diverse ways.
Chapter 4: A high rate of juvenile mortality: Young trees live perilous lives.
Chapter 5: Nursery school: Trees have personalities and the capacity to learn.
Chapter 6: Chatterbox: Trees communicate in different ways with their own kind and with other creatures too.
Chapter 7: My friend, the tree: Trees support one another.
Chapter 8: Fortunate fungi: Trees deliberately collaborate with mushrooms.
Chapter 9: That hurts! Trees defend themselves against injuries.
Chapter 10: Respect: Trees deserve humane treatment, just as animals do.
Description
Trees are engaged in countless complex cycles and they constantly struggle for water, light and their own survival. This struggle has led to some astonishing abilities: trees communicate with one another, give each other assistance, collaborate with fungi and other creatures, have memories and have even developed their own version of the internet!
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who’d like to experience the woods in a very new way
- Students of biology and ecosystems
- People who work in farming or forestry, or who have their own garden