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Objective 2
Objective 7 |
Objective 7. Summarizing the "place niche" of a species--the climatic conditions and the range of light and soil conditions under which each taxon lived successfully. The abundance of individuals of a species, their size, age and position in the canopy or understory, whether or not they produced cones and seeds, and the substrates on which they grew will be used to describe the "place-niche" occupied by the different taxa of the Eocene stands and in an assessment of their success in the forest. It is obvious that Metasequoia was extremely successful across the variety of sites that comprise this landscape because it occurs virtually everywhere we have looked. The site and competitive conditions in which the other species lived is unknown. |