AdvertisementTrees Talk To Each Other. 'Mother Tree' Ecologist Hears Lessons For People, TooMay 04, 2021Dave DaviesfacebookEmailSuzanne Simard is a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia. Her own medical journey inspired her research into, among other things, the way yew trees communicate chemically with neighboring trees for their mutual defense. (Penguin Random House)