Tropical Forest (IMAGE)

National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)

Tropical Forest

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The consistency found in size structure across tropical rainforests appears to be driven by competition for light among small individual trees following a break in the canopy cover.

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Caroline Farrior

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