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杨树。

Aspens have long roots that burrow through the soil.

白杨有着钻透土壤长根茎。

How could any aspen be the largest organism on Earth?

颤杨怎么可能成为地球上最大生物？

And these young aspens never turn into old ones.

这些轻颤杨永远不会变成老颤杨。

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

意思是，颤杨几十米高，看起来很通。

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机会在溪生长。

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

它发芽了，变成了一棵幼苗，它汲取着阳光，变成了一棵巨大颤杨。

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

鹿对小山杨树侵略性掠食给“潘多”造成了巨大威胁。

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

像这样颤杨群在地底下通过庞大共享根系连接起来。

Aspens hold a ton of records among trees.

颤杨在树木一类当中保持着大量记录。

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

像这样颤杨在几个世纪以来甚至几千来都经历了无数挑战。

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

像这样颤杨群在地下连接，这使它们成为一个巨大生物。

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

在寂静秋日午后，喜欢穿过白杨树林，连于棉树林。

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。

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

狼群回归还促进了山杨和柳树等麋鹿常见食物生长。

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

它是一片树林，是全部无性繁殖、所有根系连接在一起一片山杨树林。

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

一方面，让颤杨茁壮成长山火，们并没有让它们烧起来。

Well, like everything that evolves, aspens have adapted to their environment.

就像所有进化东西一样，颤杨已经适应了它们环境。

Well, aspens have a very thin bark.

颤杨树皮非常薄。

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

犹他州一棵巨型颤杨克隆群是目前世界上最大生物。