Trees communicate their needs and send each other nutrients via a network of latticed fungi buried in the soil. A forest is a cooperative system, using resource transfers, defense signaling, and kin recognition to thrive. I find the revitalizing global cooperation during this pandemic akin to what trees do for each other in a forest to survive. We must work together to come out of this pandemic stronger and better.
Karisma Gupta
Wake Forest School of Medicine
