Nurse log
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nurse-log-305-12747417
title:
Nurse log
text:
A nurse log is a fallen tree which, as it decays, provides ecological facilitation to seedlings. Broader definitions include providing shade or support to other plants. Some of the advantages a nurse log offers to a seedling are: water, moss thickness, leaf litter, mycorrhizae, disease protection, nutrients, and sunlight. Recent research into soil pathogens suggests that in some forest communities, pathogens hostile to a particular tree species appear to gather in the vicinity of that species, a
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description:
Decaying fallen tree that aids seedlings
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_log
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date modified:
2023-08-06T15:06:35Z
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