>>13789007>and the jungles where trap plants are most abundant also have soils more than usually depleted, even as jungles go, of key minerals by heavy rainfallAll jungles are characterized by long wet seasons with heavy rainfall so it's redundant to state this (like saying deserts that are unusually dry for deserts due to heavy droughts) and other anons are saying jungles are nutrient dense, so it's conflicting to say "soils more than usually depleted,even as jungles go."
You're implying that "as the jungle goes" creates the situation where we'd expect trapping plants more often in jungles, and especially in the ares of jungles with the worst soil. Do you not agree with 2nd post in this thread?
>It is the difference most relevant to selection pressure toward carnivorousness in plants.I don't think you've established the cost/benefit difference shifts to net negative in good soil, thus the trapping trait will always be a benefit in good or bad soil.
Being a more significant pressure some places does not mean it's not a pressure everywhere there are bugs. The original response I made was to someone who implied there is only pressure to trap bugs in nutrient-straved soils, which is 100% wrong. By definition trapping bugs is a pressure anywhere since, I'm still confident that, it can be a benefit anywhere.
