Tropical Forest Diversity--The Plot Thickens
- 26 January 2001
- journal article
- perspective
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 291 (5504) , 606-607
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1055873
Abstract
Ecologists have long pondered why tropical forests contain such a huge number of species and what factors might be responsible for maintaining this diversity. In a Perspective, Burslem and colleagues discuss unique data sets from the forest dynamics plots (FDP) network, which shed light on the factors responsible for tropical forest diversity.Keywords
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