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Notwithstanding successional status, the slow-growing species registered minimum reduction in biomass due to water stress.
We now define a variant of the slow-growing hierarchy which better copes with the complexity classes.
However, this may well be a slow-growing tree, so we have no idea of how old various trees in this size class might be.
Both species are slow-growing anaerobes requiring specialized isolation media.
The species studied included both fast- and slow-growing species and spinescent and non-spinescent species.
Rapidly growing individuals exposed to relatively high light experienced accelerated development (with respect to height) relative to slow-growing individuals exposed to low light.
We note that more slow-growing than fast-growing organisms were identified in the sputa.
In the field, most individuals presumably develop in two years, but it is possible that fast or slow-growing individuals may seed new and allochronic populations.
