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THE INJURY TEST OF MEMORY. “For the mound to serve its respiratory function, the colony must have knowledge, in some form, of how the mound is structured. That the colony has such knowledge is revealed dramatically by the response to mound injury, such as a breach of the mound surface by a soil auger. This initiates an immediate repair program that plugs the damaged mound, usually in less than a day, and often within a few hours of the injury. This is followed by an extended process of remodeling that, over periods that can span years, restores the damaged part of the mound to its form and functionality prior to the injury.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12304-016-9256-5 View in LinkedIn

TREE KIN. "The mother trees are providing a favourable environment for the regeneration of their own kin, their own genes. That is one example of forests behaving like a family." http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-underestimated-power-of-plants/7227008 View in LinkedIn

TREE KIN RECOGNITION. "We know that big old trees—we call them mother trees—will communicate with seedlings that are their kin or their kids and make room for those kids compared to seedlings that are strangers, and they are doing this through their mycorrhizal networks." http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-underestimated-power-of-plants/7227008 View in LinkedIn

COMPLEX PROBLEM. "It is very clear that the construction and maintenance of an accurate spatial map of a large plant such as a tree would demand huge processing power. Thousands of leaves and roots, each having a need to sense their local environment to serve their own needs, would produce very large amounts of data. The data would be changing by the minute as the leaves fluttered in a breeze and the roots explored their very heterogeneous environment." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/93/4/345.full View in LinkedIn