Faculty Advisor
Woods, Carrie
Area of Study
Science and Mathematics
Publication Date
Summer 2016
Abstract
Nurse logs provide safe sites from biotic and abiotic factors inhibiting seedling establishment and growth on the forest floor. Nurse logs therefore disrupt density dependent effects of fungal pathogens on seedlings.
Recommended Citation
Ortmann, Kimmy E., "The Influence of Nurse Logs on Seedlings and Trees in Temperate Rainforests" (2016). Summer Research. 281.
https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/summer_research/281
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Publisher
University of Puget Sound