Suzanne Simard
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Simard is best known for the research she conducted on the underground networks of forests characterized by fungi and roots. She studies how these fungi and roots facilitate communication and interaction between trees and plants of an ecosystem. Within the communication between trees and plants is the exchange of carbon, water, nutrients and defense signals between trees. Simard is also a leader of TerreWEB, an initiative set to train graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in global change science and its communication.
She used rare carbon isotopes as tracers in both field and greenhouse experiments to measure the flow and sharing of carbon between individual trees and species, and discovered, for instance, that birch and Douglas fir share carbon. Birch trees receive extra carbon from Douglas firs when the birch trees lose their leaves, and birch trees supply carbon to Douglas fir trees that are in the shade. Provided by Wikipedia
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7by Deslippe, Julie R., Hartmann, Martin, Simard, Suzanne W., Mohn, William W.Get access
Published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology (2012)
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8by Simard, Suzanne, Deslippe, Julie R., Gaius Shaver, Syndonia Bret-Harte, Mohn, WilliamGet access
Published 2016
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9by Simard, Suzanne, Deslippe, Julie R., E. Gwenn Farrell, Gaius Shaver, Hartmann, Martin, Mohn, WilliamGet access
Published 2016
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10by Simard, Suzanne, Deslippe, Julie R., E.G. Farrell, Gaius Shaver, Hartmann, Martin, Mohn, WilliamGet access
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11by Deslippe, Julie R., Hartmann, Martin, Grayston, Susan J., Simard, Suzanne W., Mohn, William W.Get access
Published in New Phytologist (2015)
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12by Henry, Gregory H. R., Harper, Karen A., Chen, Wenjun, Deslippe, Julie R., Grant, Robert F., Lafleur, Peter M., Lévesque, Esther, Siciliano, Steven D., Simard, Suzanne W.Get access
Published in Climatic Change (2012)
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