Conversely, another article titled, “Effects of trampling and vegetation removal on species diversity and micro‐environment under different shade conditions” provides some insight about plant variation in areas with contrasting light and foot traffic. In the abstract, they write how areas where there was no stress had little variation. Likewise, when there was a lot of stress, the lack of water from excess sunlight and trampling resulted in one stress tolerant species dominating the other plants. However, in a shady area, the availability of water allowed for multiple species to coexist and variation was higher.
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