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Fine-scale clonal structure of the lingonberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea under the nurse plant Pinus pumila vegetation in an alpine region, Mt. Norikura.
Journal of plant research - 1 Jul 2024
Sugimoto Kensuke, Kawai Rio, Koizumi Takahiko, Matsuo Ayumi, Suyama Yoshihisa, Mizuki Inoue
Abstract excerpt
The nurse effect is a positive interaction in which a nurse plant improves the abiotic environment for another species (beneficiary plant) and facilitates its establishment. The evergreen shrub Vaccinium vitis-idaea (a beneficiary plant) grows mainly under the dwarf shrub Pinus pumila (a nurse plant) in the alpine regions of central Japan. However, whether V. vitis-idaea shrubs under various P. pumila shrubs...
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