Global woodland structure from local interactions: new nearest-neighbour functions for understanding the ontogenesis of global forest structure

Abstract Background A number of hypotheses and theories, such as the Janzen-Connell hypothesis, have been proposed to explain the natural maintenance of biodiversity in tropical and temperate forest ecosystems. However, to date the details of the processes behind this natural maintenance are still u...

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Main Authors: Arne Pommerening, Hongxiang Wang, Zhonghua Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2020-04-01
Series:Forest Ecosystems
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40663-020-00224-5