Ray's Thought for the Day

Put yourself, anthropomorphically speaking, in the place of an r selected plant. You produce a great many seeds, a tousand maybe two tousand, den you die. Would it be better to produce seeds that had a marginal chance of surviving under a continuum of environmental conditions, or would it be better to invest in a strategy that would cause all your seeds to germinate under some narrow range of optimal environmental conditions?

note: To find out about r and k selection type r and k selection at Google and see what happens. I, Ray have not tried that yet.

Now Ray is busy and has to go do some other work of the botanical emergency sort. Which reminds Ray of where he first heard botanical emergency, ah, Glen Rose; more credit where credit is due.