I. a. Synopsis. Jump to Keyword Descriptors. Depending on the resources available at one's institution, many follow-up experiments could be feasible for the students. I. b. Keyword Descriptors. Community Ecology, Species Interactions, Competiton, Allelopathy, Chemical Ecology, Succession.
Students make preliminary observations and begin developing a proposal.
This lab can be done in any season, but it is easier to identify seedlings and saplings when leaves are present. Undergraduate 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year students. Hypertext Lab Description and Handouts. Allelopathy is one realm of plant-plant interactions that has important consequences for community structure, and consequently, for patterns in forest succession, forest regeneration, and microhabitat distribution patterns of many other organisms. Data Collection Methods.