Effects of Some Events Experienced by Seedlings in Competition
The objectives of the study were (1)to demonstrate that randomly occurring factors that affect seedlings can be dominant forces in determining the fitness of individuals, (2)to examine the effects of one such factor, defoliation, on final plant size and (3)to examine the dynamics of the growth response of defoliated and undefoliated plants.
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