"wood-wide web" ，植物界的互聯網

"wood-wide web"，植物界的互聯網

三十年前，庭園設計家告訴我們，後院種植紅杉樹，要配對，或成組。

理由是，

"Planting the trees in clusters allows their root systems to become intertwined, 

providing the support needed to survive major windstorms."

植物界裏，也有它們的互聯網。

異於人間的 "world-wide web"，

它們藏在樹根底部。

它們的互聯網基楚，不是數位或digital，而是複雜的生化系統。

"wood-wide web" 不是 "wireless" communication，

而是經由植物的根基系統，networks of  "mycorrhizal fungi"，

傳達，互聯訊息。

Peter Wohlleben, a German logger-turned-forest-conservationist,
在他的

 "The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate." 

書裏，這麼説，

"All the trees here, and in  every forest that is not too damaged, are connected to each other through underground fungal networks. Trees share water and nutrients through the networks, and also use them to communicate. They send distress signals about drought and disease, for example, or insect attacks, and other trees alter their behavior when they receive these messages."

....

原來，

植物界在地底下，也默默地，相互傳遞訊息，互通有無。

葉子（Yeh Tze)