Sir Arthur George Tansley, was an English botanist and a pioneer in the science of ecology. In 1917, he published a paper on the competition between Galium saxatile and Galium sylvestre in different soil types. The paper itself, consists of the relevant elements any typical paper should, ranging from a clear hypothesis, to a detailed experimental methodology section, revealingContinue reading “Tansley’s Troublesome Trials”
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Tansley 1917: What’s Missing?
Tansley’s 1917 paper brought into prominence an ecological problem of considerable interest and importance, namely the relation of competition between species, particularly closely related species, to their soil preferences. In order to investigate this phenomenon, two species, Galium saxatile and Galium sylvestre, in competition were grown on different types of soil. G. saxatile is ubiquitousContinue reading “Tansley 1917: What’s Missing?”
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