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Re: The WWP "Community" event, no description yet?
Pat Swovelin 2007-Jun-13 04:56:00
On 6/12/2007 5:08 PM, John Fellers rambled on about ...:
> Hmm; interesting Shawn;
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> Would you think that Aspen Colonies, so common in Colorado are a good
> example of a plant community? Or are they just one organizism?
They're a community so go for it. Out here in the Mojave desert they
have creosote rings that originated from a single creosote bush. The
original bush bends out and down, shoots take root, a new bush forms and
the cycle continues. Some rings have been dated at over 9,000 years old.
> "All the aspens (including White Poplar) typically grow in large colonies
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonal_colony> derived from a single
> seedling, and spreading by means of root
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root>
> suckers; new stems in the colony may appear at up to 30-40 m from the
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> tree. Each tree only lives for 40-150 years above ground, but the root
> system of the colony is long-lived, in some cases for many thousands of
> years," -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen
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> J. Fellers
Pat Swovelin
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