Ecology Facts

Over 90% of land plants are connected through underground fungal networks called mycorrhizae, which allow trees to share nutrients, water, and chemical signals with each other—a system scientists call the 'Wood Wide Web.'

A forest of 47,000 aspen trees in Utah is actually one single organism. Every trunk connects underground to the same root system. The colony is called Pando, and it covers 106 acres. It weighs an estimated 6,000 metric tons - one of the heaviest living things ever found. That root system may be up to 16,000 years old. One tree. 80 football fields.