Please answer the following question(s): 1. A pioneer plant...

Please answer the following question(s): 1. A pioneer plant should have _____ a. a few large seeds eaten by animals b. thousands of small seeds c. shade tolerance d. a tall canopy of leaves

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00:01 Let's answer this question.

00:01 So early successional plant species.

00:04 So we're talking about succession.

00:05 We're talking about when plants, you know, we have our first establishing pioneer species, then we've got some smaller shrubs, then we've got some medium trees, and eventually the community becomes all tall climax community, large old growth trees, right? so, and this is time across the bottom.

00:26 So early successional plant species.

00:28 So we're talking about species that are in this area.

00:35 Okay.

00:37 They're characterized by life history traits that do which of the following.

00:42 So a enable them to grow under tall shady trees.

00:45 Let's think about this.

00:46 Early trees, early shrubs, early plants.

00:50 Are they competing with any tall trees? no, because they don't exist yet.

00:54 Because this is time here, right? so this is time.

00:59 So they're not competing with any trees at that point.

01:04 So a being able to live in the shade doesn't really make sense, right? it does not make sense.

01:12 Let's look at b.

01:13 So b says allows them to grow large, but requires them to grow slowly.

01:19 Growing slowly would not benefit them either.

01:23 Right? actually, we'd want plants that would grow fast in that early stage...

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Please answer the following question(s): 1. A pioneer plant should have _____ a. a few large seeds eaten by animals b. thousands of small seeds c. shade tolerance d. a tall canopy of leaves

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