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Date: 06/18/2019 - 11/15/2019Time: All Day
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With Suzanne Simard Lab researchers, Allen Larocque and Katie McMahen of University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Forestry
Below the soil surface plants are carrying on complex dialogues with each other, exchanging nutrients and rebuilding soil in mutualistic enterprise with the mycorrhizal network and soil micro biome. Discover what trees in the urban forest might have to say about separation anxiety from their neighbors and soil degradation to better understand how trees flounder or thrive in built environments. Implications for selecting landscape and street trees abound, as well as best understory shrubs and grasses.