There’s evidence that trees communicate via a vast, underground network of fungal connections – we dive in to the murky world of mycorrhizal networks. - Josh Gabbatis. When Prof Suzanne Simard realised the trees were talking to each other, it didn’t come as a huge surprise. She started her career as a forester, working with trees planted in uniform rows, but the nature she knew didn’t come in rows. It was incredibly messy, complex and connected. “If you walk in a wild forest, you can see that the plants are intertwined, they provide habitat for one another,” she explains. Nature, as Simard sees it, is a network: a mass of interacting components that rely on each other to function… LINK