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Examples of heather

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Few larvae were found in dew droplets or concealed within heather leaflets; most larvae were recovered from the plant surface.
They vary from heather moorland to agrostis pastures invaded by gorse and bracken.
This may be particularly important since heather is a structurally complex plant.
The percentage cover of grasses, bracken, heather, and moss was estimated using ten randomly positioned 0.25 m2 quadrats.
This should reduce the possible variability associated with heather stand age and the actual amount of heather present in the vegetation.
However, all the seedbank data were derived from sites where heather was the dominant species, usually in the mature phase.
All three figures were estimated from stands of mature heather with c. 100% cover.
As he says, 'many a heather-covered hillside is a gravestone to a once awe-inspiring volcano'.
To examine whether larval migration was as efficient on heather as on a monocotyledon or on a structurally simple dicotyledon we undertook a second experiment.
Significantly more larvae of both nematode species were recovered in the region of the heather than the grass or controls.
In the first group of eight trays, five heather stems were planted at distances 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 cm from the centre.
The highest numbers were recovered from the heather stems; the lowest numbers were recovered from the wheat stems (fig. 3).
After constant exposure, significantly more larvae were recovered from heather than from either of the control plants.
The heather stems had been trimmed so that each had a vertical stem that extended 7 cm above the soil surface.
This implies that the structural complexity of heather causes no problems for the infective larvae.
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