
Concepts In Plant Ecology
Plants are remarkably adaptive organisms, inhabiting such diverse environments as tropics and tundra, desert and ocean, mountains and marsh. Yet each species has an optimal habitat. There can be many reasons why a plant flourishes in one plot and not in another. For example, because of the differences in slope, or because of the sheltering effect of a large tree, plots just a few feet apart could ...
Plants are remarkably adaptive organisms, inhabiting such diverse environments as tropics and tundra, desert and ocean, mountains and marsh. Yet each species has an optimal habitat. There can be many reasons why a plant flourishes in one plot and not in another. For example, because of the differences in slope, or because of the sheltering effect of a large tree, plots just a few feet apart could ...