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Which of these statements best explains why trees in a forest do not grow very close to one another?



Their seeds blow away from them.

Deer eat the newly sprouted seedlings.

Trees are harvested by lumber companies.

Trees compete for resources directly around them.

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Trees compete for resources directly around them. Each tree is trying to get enough water, nutrients, and sun to survive and they can not do that if they are right next to another tree.

Trees in a forest do not grow very close to one another because they  compete for resources directly around them.

Competition:

In an ecosystem, organisms living in same niche, compete for the available resources.

In forest, plants compete for the resources. A tree try to consume most of the resource such as water and nutrition around its area. This a inhibit the growth of new trees closer to the earlier tree.

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