The poplar trees talk to each other a few hours before the sunshine!

According to RCO News Agency, “We now see the forest as a set of trees, but as an orchestra of correlated plants,” said Alessandro Chilerio of the Italian Institute of Technology and the University of West England and a joint head of the study.

According to Space, an interdisciplinary group of researchers from Italy, Britain, Spain and Australia built custom sensors and placed them throughout the forest in the Dolomite Mountains of Italy. Using the sensors, the group recorded the simultaneous biological responses of poplar trees.

The researchers found that before and during the solar eclipse, the electrical activity of the individual trees became more “significantly”. They say the phenomenon is a testimony that the forest is a single living system.

“By applying advanced analytical methods, including the criteria of complexity and theory of quantum field, we have discovered a deeper and previously unknown dynamic synchronization that is not based on female exchanges between trees,” says Chiolirio.

The authors of the study say older trees in the forest have shown an initial reaction to the solar eclipse, which was more significant. This shows that older trees hold ancient memories they can access. When events are about to happen, the elderly trees “remember” and inform the younger trees.

“Basically, we are watching the famous widespread forest network in practice,” said Monica Gagliano of the University of Southern Cross and one of the supervisors of the study.

Gaggiano said the findings about older trees, especially the importance of preserving these trees.

“The fact that older trees respond before others and potentially guide the collective reaction of the forest,” the researcher says.

He added that the discovery emphasizes the critical importance of protecting older forests, which act as the ecosystem resilience columns by preserving and transferring valuable environmental knowledge.

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