Suzanne Simard is the author of “Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest” (Knopf), which was an instant New York Times bestseller. She is also a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia and is known for her groundbreaking research on the communication of trees, plants and forests as a whole. She has conducted a variety of TED talks on these subjects, which have garnered over 10 million views around the world. Simard is a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia.