How Trees Communicate With Each Others

Trees are an indispensable element in our simulation. Before we monitor and simulate the vegetation on earth, there are a lot of interactions between trees that we need to understand. Scientist had discovered some interesting way on how trees "talk" to each others, instead of competing for resources like sun light and nutritious, the latest data has shown that trees actually help each other out by constructing a network out of fungi, also known as mycorrhizal networks. Trees are able to share nutrients and water through mycorrhizal networks while the fungi consume about 30 percent of the sugar that trees photosynthesize from sunlight. Mycorrhizal networks is impotant for the young saplings and short trees that are covered by the tall trees. To communicate through the network, trees send chemical, hormonal and slow-pulsing electrical signals, which is where wew can get data from. This can take place in our forth sub-project where we anylize the signal of the trees in order to sense the condition of the network. We can act based on how week the network is, and after recognizing the tree's type and Color Detection, we can eventually work out the risk of the network.

References: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering-trees-180968084/