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THE recent publication of the work of Clements, Weaver, and Hanson, on “Plant Competition” reports the results of numerous experiments designed to analyse the competitive functions in plant communities. Many of these consisted of transplantations of species characteristic of one phase of a succession into a type of vegetation representing an earlier or later phase. In view of the fact that the major mortality amongst plants would appear to be in the juvenile stage of development (cf. Natube, May 31, p. 817), conclusions based upon transplantations of established plants must obviously be accepted with considerable reservation when evaluating the competitive relations between species, but recognising these limitations such have considerable value.
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SALISBURY, E. Competition between Plants*. Nature 126, 282 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126282a0
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