1. Large Processes with Small Targets: Rarity and Pollination in Rain Forests
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Tropical rain forest conservation and the twin challenges of diversity and rarity
Data from a global network of large, permanent plots in lowland tropical forests demonstrate (1) that the phenomenon of tropical tree rarity is real and (2) that almost all the species diversity in such forests is due to rare species. Theoretical and empirically based reasoning suggests that many of these rare species are not as geographically widespread as previously thought. These findings su...
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