Summary and Analysis of The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World: Based on the Book by Peter Wohlleben
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The Hidden Life of Trees explains the astonishing ways trees interact with each other and respond to their environment. It details how they communicate via underground fungal networks, provide sugar to help trees that are stressed, warn each other of insect or fungal attacks, and coordinate their growth and reproduction. The author also describes how forestry methods can be improved to work with this complex inter-tree network to allow for healthier trees.
Naturalist Peter Wohlleben puts into context the invaluable role forests play in sequestering carbon, talks about the contribution that large, old trees can play in battling climate change, and how caring for woodlands is vital to all life on earth.
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Summary and Analysis of The Hidden Life of Trees - Worth Books
Contents
Context
Overview
Summary
Cast of Characters
Direct Quotes and Analysis
Trivia
What’s That Word?
Critical Response
About Peter Wohlleben
For Your Information
Bibliography
Copyright
Context
Trees, especially old-growth trees, are essential to life. They filter carbon dioxide and pollutants from the air, and are necessary for moving water inland from the oceans. They are also the best defense against global climate change. Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees gives the reader a deeper understanding of this vital group of organisms, and explains what needs to be done to bring more old-growth trees back.
When Wohlleben first became a forester, he looked at trees only in terms of their value to the lumber market. Two things changed that. He began showing visitors around the woods, and this got him to pay more attention to the trees as he started to notice more details about them. Around the same time, Aachen University began doing research in the forest, and Wohlleben learned that trees have memories, experience pain, and nurse their children. This changed the way he treated the trees in his care, including abandoning the use of heavy machinery.
Wohlleben wrote his book to encourage readers to look more closely at forests, the way he now does, and to introduce them to the wonders he discovered as he learned more about trees.
Overview
People don’t often think of trees as having intelligence or emotions, perhaps because trees move on such a different timetable, their reactions are so slow that they appear inanimate. The Hidden Life of Trees reveals the truth. A forest is almost like a herd of animals. The trees form a society, and they communicate through a language of chemical signals that they can use to warn one another of dangers, such as an insect attack. If a member of the society is sick, the other trees will come to its aid by sending sugar and nutrients through a network of interconnected roots and fungi. Mother
trees nurse their offspring the same way.
Like animals, trees have memories. They are able to compare the amount of daylight from one day to the next so they know when to let their leaves fall. They have the ability to learn. If they suffer through a dry spell, they will conserve water from then on, even if there is plenty available. Because they share important characteristics with animals, author Peter Wohlleben suggests that it is time to give plants the rights we have already given animals.
Caring for trees isn’t only a moral choice, it’s in humanity’s best interest. Humans need trees to survive. Trees in forests act as a water pump,
taking water vapor that blows in from the ocean and transfers that water, forest by forest, deeper into the interior of inland regions. Without coastal forests, those inland regions would dry out. Most important of all, trees, specifically old-growth trees, are crucial in the balance of the global carbon cycle, which influences global climate.
Summary
1. Friendships
Scientists have discovered that trees in forests