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Why some trees find one another repulsive, and why we don’t know how much our hands weigh

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The Effect of Trees on Diversity

Michael Calutian is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas. He says there are many natural enemies, pathogens and herbivores that are species specific. And they attack and kill the juveniles of a species near or under the adults. That will allow other species to establish and grow slowly under that adult. Michael: The magnitude of repulsion that we see in the forest is only theoretically consistent with very strong species specific repulsion.

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