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Parental Care Seen in Mountain Plants

Decaying debris of two species that flower once and then die provide vital moisture that helps seedlings survive.

References:

Wied, A., and C. Galen. 1998. Plant parental care: Conspecific nurse effects in frasera speciosa and cirsium scopulorum. Ecology 79(July):1657.

Sources:

Candace Galen
University of Missouri, Columbia
Division of Biological Sciences
Columbia, MO 65211

Elizabeth Lacey
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Department of Biology
434 Bruce M. Eberhart Building
P.O. Box 26174
Greensboro, NC 27402

John Willis
University of Oregon
Department of Biology
488 Onyx Br
Eugene, OR 97403

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