Re: Tree suppression

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• Subject: Re: Tree suppression
• From: charlie.bell@cbr.for.csiro.au (Charlie Bell)
• Date: Fri, 04 Nov 1994 03:38:16 +0200
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>Hallo,
>
>developing an individuum-based model of mixed species forests I came 
>over a problem I would like to share with you:
>
>How does a suppressed tree know that it is suppressed?
>

Trees dont know anything. This seems to me to be a simple matter of 
"fitness". Under the same conditions, some organisms are simply more 
efficient at turning resources into growth or survival or whatever is being 
measured.

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