2018. Why you wouldn’t want to live next to a red pine tree (if you were a plant)
December 03, 2018
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Germain, Rob and Sean planted seeds in different soil types for their ecology project
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Germain, Rob and Sean planted seeds in different soil types for their ecology project
By Toby Rabten, Aly Briere, and Kennah Taylor
Attention: Pea, Basil, and Catnip plants, if you want to save yourselves then stay away from those Red Pine Trees. They acidify the soil and they wanna kill you and everyone you love ;^)
If you were a Pea, Basil, or Catnip plant, settling down near a Red Pine Tree would be the worst decision of your puny green life. The Red Pine Tree takes great pride in ACIDIFYING the soil with its decomposing tree needles, killing poor plants in its vincinity, and just being a jerk overall.
Sean, Germain, and Rob, took it upon themselves to reveal just how horrible of a neighbor the Red Pine Tree is to its fellow plants. With their findings, this trio unveiled the relation of soil type and plant growth. While their study was quite fruitful the three of them had difficulty analyzing the data as the information that they found could be interpreted in so many different ways. Having a larger sample size and focusing more on only a single plant species would have made Sean, Germain and Rob far more happier with their projects results.
Thinking forward the three of them have suggested that analyzing the soil composition for elements (such as Nutrients and Trace Chemicals) could be important to truly understand what is effecting the growth of Plants. In addition they believed that testing a native plant and a non-native plant’s response to pH changes in the soil could provide more complete information.
In relation to the wonderful world of Ecology, Sean, Germain, and Rob’s project was connected to Allelopathy(AKA the study of howplantsareaholes to one another).
