Tropical rainforests: diversity begets diversity.
Tropical rainforests exhibit an extraordinarily high level of biological diversity. A new study shows that the patterns of seedling survival surrounding parent trees are responsible in large part for this amazing diversity.
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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, USA.
Pimm
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D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic