
OpinionJuly 19, 2021
The Idea That Trees Talk to Cooperate Is Misleading
It’s a romantic notion, but pretending they’re like humans could actually harm the cause of conservation
Kathryn Flinn is a plant ecologist and Associate Professor of Biology at Baldwin Wallace University near Cleveland, with a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University. For more about her, please see https://kathrynflinn.wordpress.com/.

The Idea That Trees Talk to Cooperate Is Misleading
It’s a romantic notion, but pretending they’re like humans could actually harm the cause of conservation