“This study illustrates the anticipatory and synchronized responses we observed are key to understanding how forests communicate and adapt, revealing a new layer of complexity in plant behaviour,” said Professor Gagliano.
“Basically, we are watching the famous ‘wood wide web’ in action!”
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Their analysis demonstrates that individual trees’ electrical activity became significantly more synchronised before and during the eclipse, indicating that trees function as a unified living system that coordinates its response to external events.
“By applying advanced analytical methods—including complexity measures and quantum field theory—we have uncovered a deeper, previously unrecognised dynamic synchronisation not based on matter exchanges among trees,” said Professor Chiolerio.
“We now see the forest not as a mere collection of individuals, but as an orchestra of phase correlated plants.”
Professor Gagliano said the findings support calls for the preservation of wise old trees.
The forest as one living orchestration of trees.
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