Violents (Latin violent – outrageous)

Violents (Latin violent – outrageous)

1. type of strategy of plants that differs by its high competitiveness. These are trees, more rarely bushes and grass, with mighty habit and developed root system, allowing V. to put under control the resources of edaphic environment and light. In successions, V. dominate at the last stages (e.g., beech in forest, cane in delta of moderate climate rivers).