The plant depends on regular summer burning in order to stimulate flowering and seed production.
Most plants either directly or indirectly depend on it.
The plant may depend on periodic flooding to scour competing vegetation out of its habitat.
In Mexico the plants depended on a special kind of bee, the melipona, for pollination.
As it is often difficult to prevent damage, many alpine plants depend on the replacement of their organs.
Some plants, like tree poppies, depend on native ants for seed dispersal.
The specific plants used in xeriscaping depend upon the climate.
The riparian plant and animal communities depend strongly on each other.
All green plants depend on light to power the chemical processes by which they synthesise their body substances from simple elements.
Many other animals and plants depend on wetlands for survival.
