User:Greentea1991/Nurse tree

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'''Löf, Magnus, Andreas Bolte, Douglass F. Jacobs, and Anna M. Jensen. “Nurse Trees as a Forest Restoration Tool for Mixed Plantations: Effects on Competing Vegetation and Performance in Target Tree Species: Nurse Trees.” Restoration Ecology 22, no. 6 (2014): 758–65. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.12136.'''

'''Högberg, Peter, and Mona N. Högberg. “Does Successful Forest Regeneration Require the Nursing of Seedlings by Nurse Trees through Mycorrhizal Interconnections?” Forest Ecology and Management 516 (2022): 120252–. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120252.'''

'All we can save: truth, courage, and solutions for the climate crisis''. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson (One World trade paperback edition ed.). New York. 2021.''' ISBN 978-0-593-23708-3.

Edit the first paragraph for added information.

Fallen leaves from the nurse tree fertilize the ground underneath creating nutrient rich soil for the saplings and vegetation beneath. Nurse trees protect smaller plants from significant changes in temperature. Some nurse trees, such as black alder, act as Nitrogen fixing agents in the soil. The nurse tree relationship occurs both naturally and via human intervention.

Add another sentence to the first section about how nurse trees are facilitators and define what facilitation is in this context.

If there is a genetic relationship between trees, nurse trees are also called mother trees.

Create a heading for the examples of nurse trees.

Add image of example of Saguro and Nurse Tree https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Young_saguaros_under_nurse_tree.jpg

Another example

Nurse trees may be used as a forest restoration tool. It is best to establish the nurse tree population before introducing target plants into the ecosystem. The nurse trees share nutrients with other plants via Mycorrhizal mycelia, a network of fungus.

Not all older trees are nurse trees and there can be competition among plants. I plan to paraphrase this sentence "that the successful regeneration of seedlings was the result of alleviation from competition from the large trees for below-ground resources like nutrients and water" from.

I found a new source.

https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/opinion/2022/08/13/what-nurse-tree-and-why-some-tree-trunks-connected-ecoviews/10263865002/

I think one of the sources currently cited in the article is a dead source so I need to investigate that further.