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Lower Within-Community Variance of Negative Density Dependence Increases Forest Diversity

Local abundance of adult trees impedes growth of conspecific seedlings through host-specific enemies, a mechanism first proposed by Janzen and Connell to explain plant diversity in forests. While several studies suggest the importance of this mechanism, there is still little information of how the v...

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Autores principales: Miranda, António, Carvalho, Luís M., Dionisio, Francisco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4439077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25992631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127260