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Suzanne Simard

A woman with shoulder-length brown hair and gold hoop earrings wears a dark green sweater against a gray background.

Canadian forest ecologist at the University of British Columbia. Her 1997 Nature paper used radioactive and stable-carbon isotopes to trace the movement of carbon between Douglas fir and paper birch seedlings sharing a mycorrhizal network, demonstrating bidirectional transfer in the field. Her popular book Finding the Mother Tree (2021) brought the idea of forest-scale fungal communication to a wide audience, along with a fair amount of controversy.

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