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。

Aspens have long roots that burrow through the soil.

白杨有着钻透土壤的长根茎。

How could any aspen be the largest organism on Earth?

杨怎么可能为地球上最大的生物？

And these young aspens never turn into old ones.

这些轻的杨永远不会变杨。

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

我的意思是，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的机会在溪流附近生长。

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

发芽了，变了一棵幼苗，汲取着阳光，变了一棵巨大的杨。

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”造了巨大威胁。

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

像这样的杨群在地底下通过庞大的共享根系连接起来。

Aspens hold a ton of records among trees.

杨在树木一类当中保持着大量的记录。

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

像这样的杨在几个世纪以来甚至几千来都经历了无数的挑战。

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

像这样的杨群在地下连接，这使们为一个巨大的生物。

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。

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的生长。

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

是一片树林，是全部无性繁殖、所有根系连接在一起的一片山杨树林。

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

一方面，让杨茁壮长的山火，我们并没有让们烧起来。

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

就像所有进化的东西一样，杨已经适应了们的环境。

Well, aspens have a very thin bark.

杨的树皮非常薄。

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

犹他州的一棵巨型杨克隆群是目前世界上的最大生物。