Mayer A L, Pimm S L
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, USA.
Curr Biol. 1997 Jul 1;7(7):R430-2. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(06)00210-7.
Tropical rainforests exhibit an extraordinarily high level of biological diversity. A new study shows that the patterns of seedling survival surrounding parent trees are responsible in large part for this amazing diversity.