Tropical Forest Diversity--The Plot Thickens

作者: David FRP Burslem , Nancy C Garwood , Sean C Thomas

DOI: 10.1126/SCIENCE.1055873

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摘要: Ecologists have long pondered why tropical forests contain such a huge number of species and what factors might be responsible for maintaining this diversity. In Perspective, Burslem colleagues discuss unique data sets from the forest dynamics plots (FDP) network, which shed light on

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