See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overstory
Read the chapter Patricia Westerford, inspired by the true story of Suzanne Simard, the forest ecologist who showed that trees communicate. In typical fashion, she was dismissed and even ridiculed by other scientists until her research showed that she was right. See https://tim.blog/2021/04/23/the-overstory-by-richard-powers-patricia-westerford/