Conspecific and phylogenetic density-dependent survival differs across life stages in a tropical forest
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Yan Zhu, Liza S. Comita, Stephen P. Hubbell and Keping Ma* State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China; School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Box 0843-03092, Balboa, Anc! on, Panama; and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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