title: Tropical rainforests: diversity begets diversity.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, USA.
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Mayer
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Pimm
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic