Astonishing: trees communicate, coordinate action, and share material resources via a fungal network. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/2015/05/09/dying-trees-can-send-food-to-neighbors-of-different-species/ … via @Jayarava
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There’s a ponderosa pine—the species in that article—visible from my window as I tweet this, and now I’m wondering what it’s talking about.
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To the extent trees are social creatures, one wonders if they too evolved basic morality. Does the network detect and punish defectors?
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@Meaningness I got a really cranky email from a friend at 4:00 this morning about that article, not exactly sure what the beef is -2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness "urging us to empathize with trees as social animals" by coming to the exact opposite conclusion about self-interested fungi?1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing Yeah, I looked at it from that point of view too. You have to consider both perspectives when looking at social evopsych1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness I guess it's the tree's decision when/whether to dump nutrients into the soil and the mushroom's decision to transmit them?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@sarahdoingthing Doubt this is known—research seems quite preliminary. Mushroom might manipulate tree’s internal chemistry to influence, e.g
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