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IT is a familiar fact that the majority of plants produce a vastly larger number of offspring than can possibly survive, but unfortunately exact quantitative observations respecting their mortality is meagre in the extreme.
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SALISBURY, E. Mortality amongst Plants and its Bearing on Natural Selection. Nature 125, 817 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125817a0
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