{"id":125369,"date":"2013-07-24T20:30:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T23:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=125369"},"modified":"2013-09-06T19:00:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T22:00:55","slug":"the-neighbors-shade-is-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/the-neighbors-shade-is-better\/","title":{"rendered":"The neighbor\u2019s shade is better"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_125370\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-125370 \" alt=\"Close-up of Esenbeckia leiocarpa: high mortality under the mother tree\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/012-015_Tecnociencia_208-21.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"206\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">FLAVIANA M. SOUZA \/ IF <\/span>Close-up of Esenbeckia leiocarpa: high mortality under the mother tree<span class=\"media-credits\">FLAVIANA M. SOUZA \/ IF <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you pay a visit to a forest like the one at the Caetetus ecological station in the central region of the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, you will see highly aggregated clusters of tropical trees of the species <em>Esenbeckia leiocarpa<\/em>, with few competitors under their canopies. It was formerly thought that the presence of this species is somehow prejudicial to the growth of others and that the nearly complete absence of other species might favor the survival of the descendents of <em>Esenbeckia<\/em>. But that\u2019s not actually how things are. \u201cContrary to what we had believed, <em>Esenbeckia<\/em> has a much greater impact on its own plants than on other native species,\u201d concluded botanist Flaviana Maluf de Souza, of the S\u00e3o Paulo Forest Institute (IF), based on controlled field experiments conducted in collaboration with her IF colleague Geraldo Franco as well as with Ragan Callaway, of the University of Montana (<em>Plant Ecology<\/em>, April).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe survival of Esenbeckia seedlings is much greater under the canopies of other species,\u201d she says. In her field study, Souza planted groups of 200 seeds (100 <em>Esenbeckia<\/em> and 100 cedar) under adult <em>Esenbeckia<\/em> and another 200 under trees of other species. Underneath Esenbeckia, 64% fewer seedlings of this species germinated as compared to the germination rate beneath other species; in the case of cedar seedlings, the difference was 35%. This shows that <em>Esenbeckia<\/em> has a much greater negative impact on its own descendents than on cedar, possibly because <em>Esenbeckia<\/em> seedlings compete more with each other than with other species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The neighbor\u2019s shade is better","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[213],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-125369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-botany"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125369"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=125369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}