{"id":5640,"date":"2016-03-17T10:41:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T10:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/?p=5640"},"modified":"2016-03-17T10:43:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T10:43:01","slug":"german-forest-ranger-finds-that-trees-have-social-networks-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/german-forest-ranger-finds-that-trees-have-social-networks-too\/","title":{"rendered":"German Forest Ranger Finds That Trees Have Social Networks, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate \u2014 Discoveries From a Secret World.\u201d<br \/>\nPeter Wohlleben&#8217;s best seller sold 320,000 copies in 2015 in Germany, and it&#8217;s English version in will be published in September 2016. The book covers trees as social beings, nursing sick neighbors, warning each other of danger by sending electrical signals across associated symbiotic fungal networks (\u201cWood Wide Web\u201d); and, for reasons unknown, keeping the ancient stumps of long-felled companions alive for centuries by feeding them via these fungal networks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/30\/world\/europe\/german-forest-ranger-finds-that-trees-have-social-networks-too.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/30\/world\/europe\/german-forest-ranger-finds-that-trees-have-social-networks-too.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate \u2014 Discoveries From a Secret World.\u201d Peter Wohlleben&#8217;s best seller sold 320,000 copies in 2015 in Germany, and it&#8217;s English version in will be published in September 2016. The book covers trees as social beings, nursing sick neighbors, warning each other of danger by sending electrical signals across associated symbiotic fungal networks (\u201cWood Wide Web\u201d); and, for reasons unknown, keeping the ancient stumps of long-felled companions alive for centuries by feeding them via these fungal networks. http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/30\/world\/europe\/german-forest-ranger-finds-that-trees-have-social-networks-too.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5643,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions\/5643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}