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Why not both? Rainforest diversity stems from two seemingly irreconcilable processes

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Mongabay (India)

Publication Date
2017-06-02

It’s crowded in the tropics. Take the plant world: 1,000 tree species can coexist in a small equatorial area of only a quarter kilometer squared, according to one forest ecologist, S. Joseph Wright. That’s about as many tree species as in all the temperate forests of the northern hemisphere combined.

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https://news.mongabay.com/2017/06/why-not-both-rainforest-diversity-stems-from-two-seemingly-irreconcilable-processes/