What is symbiosis? When people talk about this idealized vision of forests, where everything is collaborative and altruistic and utopian, they often use the word “symbiosis” — this is actually the perfect word to describe forests and other ecosystems, but not in the way you think. Symbiosis is often confused with “mutualism” — a mutually-beneficial relationship between organisms — but it is actually ANY close relationship between organisms. Forests contain mutualisms but also parasitic relations

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