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Enemies Maintain Hyperdiverse Tropical Forests

Enemies Maintain Hyperdiverse Tropical Forests

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Enemies Maintain Hyperdiverse Tropical Forests

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Enemies Maintain Hyperdiverse Tropical Forests

Publisher

United States: University of Chicago Press

Journal title

The American naturalist, 2012-03, Vol.179 (3), p.303-314

Language

English

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United States: University of Chicago Press

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Contents

Understanding tropical forest tree diversity has been a major challenge to ecologists. In the absence of compensatory mechanisms, two powerful forces, drift and competition, are expected to erode diversity quickly, especially in communities containing scores or hundreds of rare species. Here, I review evidence bearing on four compensatory mechanism...

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Enemies Maintain Hyperdiverse Tropical Forests

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TN_cdi_jstor_primary_10_1086_664183

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_jstor_primary_10_1086_664183

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ISSN

0003-0147

E-ISSN

1537-5323

DOI

10.1086/664183

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