Annidation vs Allelopathy - What's the difference?
annidation | allelopathy |
(ecology) The adaptation of the various genotypes to different ecological niches, such as where a mutant form of a species is maintained in a population because it can flourish in a way that the parent organisms cannot."
* Flax grew more rapidly and matured earlier than linseed and this difference in timing of growth led to annidation.''Khan, M.A., P.D. Putwain & A.D. Bradshaw (1975): Population interrelationships: Frequency-dependent fitness in Linum. ''Heredity , 34 : 145–163. doi:10.1038/hdy.1975.20 (
The release by a plant of a toxin to suppress growth of nearby competing plants.
As nouns the difference between annidation and allelopathy
is that annidation is the adaptation of the various genotypes to different ecological niches, such as where a mutant form of a species is maintained in a population because it can flourish in a way that the parent organisms cannot while allelopathy is the release by a plant of a toxin to suppress growth of nearby competing plants.annidation
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(en noun)annidation." McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2003. Answers.com 14 Jun. 2009.
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