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An Inside Look at Carnivorous Plants

4/5/2013

 
When we imagine drama playing out between predators and prey, most of us picture stealthy lions and restless gazelle, or a sharp-taloned hawk latched on to an unlucky squirrel. But Ben Baiser, a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Forest and lead author of a new study in Oikos, thinks on a more local scale. His inter-species drama plays out in the humble bogs and fens of eastern North America, home to the carnivorous pitcher plant,Sarracenia purpurea. "It's shocking, the complex world you can find inside one little pitcher plant," says Baiser.

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