Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia, Suzanne Simard has studied webs of root and fungi in the Arctic, temperate and coastal forests of North America for nearly three decades.
Her initial inklings about the importance of mycorrhizal networks were prescient, inspiring whole new lines of research that ultimately overturned long-standing misconceptions about forest ecosystems.
Article by Ferris Jabr in the Sydney Morning Herald. January 29, 2021.
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