Aspens have long roots that burrow through the soil.

白杨有着钻透土壤的长根茎。

I mean, aspens are pretty average-looking trees of tens of meters high.

我的意思是，颤杨几十米高，看起来很普通。

How could any aspen be the largest organism on Earth?

颤杨怎么可能成为地球上最大的生物？

That gave willows, cottonwoods, and aspens a better chance to grow near streams.

这使得杨柳、三角叶杨和白杨有更好的机会在溪流附近生长。

Pando is not an unusual aspen from a genetic standpoint.

从基因角度来看，潘多并不是一种不寻常的杨树。

The deers' aggressive browsing of young aspen poses a huge threat to Pando.

鹿对小山杨树的侵略性掠食给“潘多”造成巨大威胁。

Aspens like these have survived countless challenges in the centuries, even millennia that they've been here.

像这样的颤杨在几个世纪以来甚至几千来都经历的挑战。

And these young aspens never turn into old ones.

这些轻的颤杨永远不会变成老颤杨。

Groups of aspens like these are connected underground by a giant shared root system.

像这样的颤杨群在地底下通过庞大的共享根系连接起来。

On still autumn afternoons I like to walk through the aspen groves and visit with the cottonwoods.

在寂静的秋日午后，我喜欢穿过白杨树林，流连于棉树林。

It's a stand of trees, a field of aspens all clones and all connected at the roots.

它是一片树林，是全部性繁殖、所有根系连接在一起的一片山杨树林。

The sap was rising in the pines. The willows and aspens were bursting out in young buds.

汁液灌满在松树上，嫩芽绽放在柳树上。

For one thing, the fires that aspens depend on to thrive. Well, we're not letting them burn.

一方面，让颤杨茁壮成长的山火，我们并没有让它们烧起来。

The canine comeback also boosted the growth of popular elk foods such as aspen and willow trees.

狼群回归还促进山杨和柳树等麋鹿常见食物的生长。

Groups of aspens like these connected underground, well, that makes them one giant organism.

像这样的颤杨群在地下连接，这使它们成为一个巨大的生物。

A giant aspen clone in Utah is the current title holder for world's largest organism.

犹他州的一棵巨型颤杨克隆群是目前世界上的最大生物。

And it sprouted, became a seedling, and it chased the sun's light up to become a giant aspen.

它发芽，变成一棵幼苗，它汲取着阳光，变成一棵巨大的颤杨。

As a child I remember peeping through the frosted aspen groves, looking for those pearly antlers and noble white muzzle.

当我还是个孩子的时候，我记得透过结霜的白杨树林窥视，寻找那些珍珠般的鹿角和高贵的白色枪口。

In the Western U.S., the lower 48, aspen, second to riparian systems, are the most biodiverse forests that we have.

在位于美西部的下48州，就生物多样性的丰富程度来说，山杨林仅次于河岸系统。

And that's a really dangerous situation for aspen because it really depends on continuous growth of the whole clone.

这对山杨来说是非常危险的情况，因为山杨非常依赖整体性繁殖的持续增长。