Each of the three institutions will work at an individual site and each will study a variety of oak. We hatched the idea of multiple sites and doing the same thing on all of them. It's a very collaborative project. The scientists and students will take samples of the environment as well as put plastic tubes into the earth to watch and photograph how the roots grow. At the end of it we'll understand better the nature of the biocomplexity.
Most people assume that trees are individual entities.
This would mean that all the trees in an area are interconnected.