Hollywood actor Amy Adams is set to play a UBC ecology professor in an upcoming feature film based on the researcher's new memoir. Finding the Mother Tree is a memoir by Suzanne Simard. These communities are centred around what researchers call "mother trees," which support seedlings by infecting them with fungi and supplying them the nutrients they need to grow. "We call them mother trees, and they are the biggest, oldest trees in the forest. Simard says the mother trees are essential for biodiversity, something that has become a growing concern in B.C.

Source: CBC News May 23, 2021 16:52 UTC