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What is the Wood Wide Web?

Over the past couple decades, research has shown that different species of mycorrhizal fungi are able to connect in various ways to different species of plants and trees to facilitate the transfer of nutrients between them all, uniting individuals regardless of their species, class, domain and kingdom for the survival of them all. This fungal network has been dubbed the ‘wood wide web’, and it creates different groupings of species that work together based on the type of mycorrhizal fungi connection they are able to form. Some species are grouped together based on connections to species of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, like Western Redcedars, Bigleaf Maple and Sword Fern, whereas other trees like Douglas-fir and Birch are connected through ectomycorrhizal fungi. Flowering plants in the family ericaceae like Blueberries, Huckleberries, Salal and even Arbutus trees all connect to species of ericoidal mycorrhizal fungi, and then there are flowers like Orchids which connect to their own unique group of mycorrhizal fungi. From these studies we’ve been able to observe specific nutrients flowing from one individual to another in cycles that can alternate back and forth depending on the season, or when one tree is damaged or sick and may require more nurturing, and quite often those nutrients are sent from one one to another in what seems to be favourable relationships, like it’s own offspring to help ensure their survival.  We have an understanding of how this happens in terms of energy flow, where certain individuals are sources, or those containing or creating excess energy, which then flows through this network of fungi to energy sinks, or those lacking those resources. However, we still don’t understand exactly why this all happens the way it does, who is making these decisions to send energy where and how, and there’s still quite a bit of ongoing debate and research around this. Is it the tree consciously making the decision to send its own offpsring more resources to ensure their survival and thus the success of their species?  Is the tree specifically choosing to send its excess nutrients to another individual that it knows has the ability to return the favour when it may be in need?  Or perhaps its the fungi recognizing the genetic similarities between the strong energy producing tree that provides it with so much food, and deliberately supporting its offspring to ensure more resources for itself in the future? Maybe we’ll never know, and maybe that’s alright.  In some ways, our desire to find a party responsible for making these decisions is inherently limited and a very anthropocentric individualist point of view that projects our framework of thinking onto these other species, whom we couldn’t ever possibly have any idea what they are thinking or feeling, or what that even looks like to them, as we are not them, nor could we ever be.  We will always be experiencing the world through the lens and perspective of being human, so how could we ever know what and how a fungi or tree is experiencing and why? Instead, perhaps it is an unconscious way of being that these species have evolved to be, acting in what we would only closest know as flow-state, or a state of unconsciously being that just does things, that just does what they do.  Existing, together, naturally, and unconsciously engaged in the present, and I think thats maybe whats happening with these plants, trees and fungi.  They’re all just doing what they’ve evolved to always be doing, which is working and existing together so that they all can survive, thrive, and create a better world for those who follow….and I think maybe there’s a lesson in there for us somewhere. Like this vid? Support Nerdy About Nature on Patreon to make more engaging videos like this possible! || SUPPORT THESE VIDEOS :   / nerdyaboutnature​   Subscribe to Nerdy About Nature for more engaging fun-facts to make your next jaunt into the outdoors more rad! || SUBSCRIBE : http://www.youtube.com/NerdyAboutNatu... || IG :   / nerdyaboutnature   || FB :   / nerdyaboutnature   || http://www.NerdyAboutNature.com __________________________________________________ Produced & Directed by Ross Reid ~ I'd like to acknowledge that this video was filmed on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations. ~ __________________________________________________