BIOA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Kalahari Desert, Mustard Oil, Bracken
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From tree to seed: transport in plants, plant nutrition & soils, plant defense, plant life on the edge. All non-plants depend directly or indirectly on plant food. Every plant is under constant threat of attack (=herbivory: plants feed the world, but they do not really want to do so . Especially insects are feeding on plants day and night: plants feed the world, but they do not really want to do so . Leaf miners: plants feed the world, but they do not really want to do so . Mollusks: plants feed the world, but they do not really want to do so . Argentinosaurus: 40 m long, 100 tons, 90-100 million years ago: plants feed the world, but they do not really want to do so . Small mammals: plants feed the world, but they do not really want to do so . Large mammals: plants feed the world, but they do not really want to do so .