Ulva lactuca and Gigartina canaliculata are two seaweeds that interact within their shared environment. In an experiment scientists observed, tracked, and graphically represented the presence of G.canaliculata in two separate scenarios, one in which U. Lactuca was removed from the environment and one in which U. Lactuca was present. In the presence of U. Lactuca G.canaliculata was able to thrive in environment with a significant number of recruits, while the removal of U. Lactuca resulted in low recruitment for G.canaliculata. This shows the effect of Ulva on Gigartina can be characterized by a facilitative successional mechanism. Facilitative succession is defined by a scenario in which one species allows for the growth of successive species in an environment, this appears to be the case here as the presence of U. Lactuca results in the growth of G.canaliculata and its removal causes the recruitment of G.canaliculata to decrease significantly in comparison to the. Since U. Lactuca allows G.canaliculata to grow more in comparison to the alternative situation where U. Lactuca is not present, this positive relationship between the two species can be seen as facilitative in nature.
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"in comparison to the. Since
"in comparison to the. Since U. Lactuca allows G.canaliculata to grow more in comparison"- I'm just a lottle confused by this sentence, I think a word is missing or maybe something got copied wrong. It just doesn't seem to flow properly.
"Facilitative succession is
"Facilitative succession is defined by a scenario in which one species allows for the growth of successive species in an environment, this appears to be the case here as the presence of U. Lactuca results in the growth of G.canaliculata and its removal causes the recruitment of G.canaliculata to decrease significantly in comparison"-- This sentence could function as two sentences, ending after the definition of facilitative succession instead of putting a comma and continuing. If you want it to be one sentence, the word "this" should be changed to "which" so that the there is a clear change in the sentence and it flows better.
Scientific writing
My suggestion for this paragraph is to write the genus and species in italics in order to follow the rules of scientific writing.