Lianas suppress tree regeneration and diversity in treefall gaps
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Lianas suppress tree regeneration and diversity in treefall gaps.
Treefall gaps are hypothesized to maintain diversity by creating resource-rich, heterogeneous habitats necessary for species coexistence. This hypothesis, however, is not supported empirically for shade-tolerant trees, the dominant plant group in tropical forests. The failure of gaps to maintain shade-tolerant trees remains puzzling, and the hypothesis implicated to date is dispersal limitation...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ecology Letters
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1461-023X,1461-0248
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01480.x