BIO330H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Populus Tremuloides, Lignin, Tobacco Mosaic Virus
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Litter quality: high n litter breaks down faster than low n litter. Peatlands: wetlands where soil > of undecayed matter. Hudson bay: peatlands huge source of c (problem, undecayed, climate change could cause these to dry out, t increase, expose upper layers of c restart decomposition and release c. Lose chance of fitness, increase risk: not an accident, is a program function that plants are designed to do this, answered in next slide, dispersal is risky, escape. If you land too close to your parent, bad place (big tree: but most do. Lecture 10- interspecific competition feb 24, 2020. Interspecific competition should reduce species diversity: most competition models predict species can coexist if they different use different resources, predict # of maximum of coexisting species = # of resources they are competing for, example: lotka-volterra model. If believe number of species = resources: says if there are 30 resources, then 30 plants.
