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Why do same type of fruits come in different sizes?
Phenotypic variance
This variance in the appearance of living things is called phenotypic variance. There are a number of reasons for the existence of such phenotypic variance. In other words there ...
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Why were vegetation coverages not assumed to be affected by precipitation, humidity or temperature?
The title of the article is (my emphasis):
Linking niche size and phylogenetic signals to predict future soil microbial relative abundances.
To look at bacterial abundance, they generated models ...
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Vegetation Monitoring - Why permanent plots
The answer boils down to statistics rather than anything particular about this type of experiment.
If you have a sample of plots, and then take repeated measurements in that same sample over time, ...
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Are agave plants perennial?
Agave is more closely related to asparagus and hyacinths than to cactus. They are perrenial, you can harvest the lowest half of the leaves to make it look like a little palm tree, it will die after ...
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Are agave plants perennial?
When harvesting agave nectar, generally the whole plant is harvested at once to get to the core, where most of the sap is. There isn't exactly an easy way to continually get nectar from the agave ...
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What is the difference between abundance and dominance in an ecosystem?
There is a difference between dominance and abundance in vegetation science, and your citation is about vegetation.
Abundance is the relative representation of a species in a particular ecosystem. It ...
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