"It is tempting to assume that the process of natural selection has brought about a nicety of adjustment between the seed output and mortality, and this presumption is implicit in most of the writings on this topic. If true, it involves as a necessary corollary that the potential of a species is a measure of its susceptibility to natural mortality."
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Edward James Salisbury
(16 April 1886 – 10 November 1978) was an English botanist, field naturalist, plant photographer, and ecologist. He was appointed of botany in 1929, awarded a in 1936, and knighted in 1946.
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