Solidago Canadensis (Canada Goldenrod)

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Solidago Canadensis (Canada Goldenrod) is an invasive species found in most of the United States, Canada and recently introduced to Europe and parts of Asia. It grows from August to October, when exposed to sunlight or partial shade, preferring moist environments, that lack trees and can grow well after a perturbation. Mostly pollinated by butterflies, bees and other insects (because it provides pollen and nectar) it is commonly use as bovine food, to produce honey or as a medicinal plant (for urological purposes).
Linria vulgaris (Butter and Eggs) is an invasive species that grows on disturbed, cultivated soils exposed to sunlight and situated in dry open habitats (found in western Asia, around the Mediterranean and in the North American continent).
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The methods that were used to formulate a hypothesis derive from an observational and deductive analysis, therefore several improvements could be made following the scientific method, such as constructing a manipulative experiment to determine whether the growth of Solidago Canadensis is affected by various soil types (compare its growth in various soils) and its capacity to outcompete a broader variety of surrounding plants by exposing it to different species. Limitations are noticeable such as other factors that could account for Solidago Canadensis capacity to outcompete other species (such as exposure to …show more content…
In this article the authors are trying to answer if Coroner’s relationships concerning reproductive structures demonstrate that conifer species possessing large diameter branches usually bear large pollen and seed producing cones as well as larger cones but more specifically testing the factors that could generate morphological diversity over a period of time on the production of cones, by studying the differences in the diameter of the branches and branching density among conifers to determine if they influence the evolution of the size of cones. Furthermore, the authors are also trying to figure out whether imbricate scale leaves and seed cones having fleshy tissues affect the Coroner’s relationship (the scale of the leaves are associated with a particular branching producing smaller coned sized species and cones with fleshy tissue that are typically smaller than the cones of woody conifers).

7. The paper is part of the individual ecology and integrates biodiversity within the conifer species. Indeed, it used the individual approach to study the branching architecture and its influence on the cone size of conifers by understanding and studying the various morphological or genetic adaptations or characteristics of conifers general morphology, physiology using its life history and how it adapts, behaves and survives in its

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