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    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
    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
    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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    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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    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Hidden Life of Trees tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Peter Wohlleben’s book.
     
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    About The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben:
     
    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.
     
    The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 11, 2017
    ISBN9781504020459
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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

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