Treefall Gaps and the Maintenance of Species Diversity in a Tropical Forest
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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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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0012-9658
DOI: 10.2307/2679891